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Crantor
Crantor
c. 340 BCE–c. 275 BCE · Athens
Crantor of Soli was a Greek philosopher of the late 4th and early 3rd century BCE, a member of the Academy founded by Plato. He is noted as the first to write a commentary on a Platonic dialogue, the 'Timaeus,' and for an influential work 'On Grief' that shaped the later tradition of consolation writing. His works survive only in fragments and later citation.
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About Athens
Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.
In Athens at the same time
Isocrates, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Crantor’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Isocrates, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Hegesippus, Aeschines, Philip of Opus, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Demades, Aristoxenus, Theophrastus, Dinarchus
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Crantor’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.