Editing Crantor (section)

==Writings==
His works were very numerous; but of these, only fragments have been preserved.  They appear to have related principally to moral subjects, and, accordingly, [[Horace]]<ref>Horace, ''Ep.'' i. 2. 4</ref> classes him with [[Chrysippus]] as a moral philosopher, and speaks of him in a manner which proves that the writings of Crantor were much read and generally known in [[Rome]] at that time.{{sfn|Smith|1870}} 

He also made some attempts at poetry; and [[Diogenes Laërtius]] relates, that, after sealing up a collection of his poems, he deposited them in the temple of [[Athena]] in his native city, Soli. He is accordingly called by the poet [[Theaetetus of Cyrene|Theaetetus]], in an epitaph which he composed upon him,<ref>Anth. Plan. ii. 28.</ref> the friend of the [[Muses]]; and that his chief favorites among the poets were [[Homer]] and [[Euripides]].{{sfn|Laërtius|1925}}

===''On Grief''===
The most popular of Crantor's works in Rome seems to have been that "On Grief" ({{langx|la|De Luctu}}, {{langx|el|Περὶ Πένθους}}), which was addressed to his friend Hippocles on the death of his son, and from which [[Cicero]] seems to have heavily relied upon in his ''[[Tusculan Disputations]]''.<ref>Marcus Tullius Cicero  and Margaret Graver ''Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4'' 2009 {{ISBN|0226305783}} p188</ref> According to Cicero, the [[Stoicism|Stoic]] philosopher [[Panaetius]] called it a "golden" work, which deserved to be learnt by heart word for word.<ref>Cicero, Acad, ii. 44.</ref> Cicero also made great use of it while writing his celebrated ''[[Consolatio (Cicero)|Consolatio]]'' on the death of his daughter, [[Tullia (daughter of Cicero)|Tullia]]. Several extracts from it are preserved in [[Pseudo-Plutarch]]'s treatise on Consolation addressed to Apollonius, which has come down to us. Crantor paid special attention to [[ethics]], and arranged "good" things in the following order - virtue, health, pleasure, riches.<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Crantor|volume=7|pages=378–379}}</ref>

===''Commentaries on Plato''===
[[Diogenes Laërtius]] says that Crantor left behind 30,000 lines of Commentaries (ύπομνήματα),{{sfn|Laërtius|1925|loc=§ 24}} but of these only fragments have been preserved.{{sfn|Smith|1870}} Crantor seems to have been the first member of the [[Platonic academy]] to write [[Commentaries on Plato|commentaries on the works of Plato]];{{sfn|Dillon|1996|p=42-43}} [[Proclus]] credits Crantor with the first commentary on the [[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]],<ref>In Tim, I 76,2</ref> and [[Eudorus of Alexandria]] makes use of Crantor's work in his own commentary, which is in turn preserved by [[Plutarch]].<ref>Plutarch, Proc. An. 1020B</ref>