Brill's Companion to Crantor of Soli (Brill's Companions to Philosophy / Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy)

Vassallo, Christian (EDT)/ De Simone, Pia (EDT)/ Fleischer, Kilian Josef (EDT)

Brill（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004708761
• DDC分類 180

Full Description

This book represents the first monograph (miscellany) entirely devoted to Crantor of Soli (app. 335-275 BCE), an outstanding figure of the Old Academy. He was in particular famous for his On Grief, an exemplary work of consolation literature, and for his being the first commentator of Plato's Timaeus. Unlike his darling Arcesilaus of Pitane, who initiated the Sceptical turn, Crantor seems to have stuck firm to the Academic teachings of Polemon and Plato. The contributions collected in this book aim to convey a complete picture of Crantor by discussing various aspects of his philosophy and biography.

Contents

Introduction: Preliminary Questions to Be Settled for a New Comprehensive Edition of the Testimonia to Crantor of Soli

1 Towards a Reappraisal of Crantor's Role in the History of the Hellenistic Academy

 Andrea Beghini

2 Crantor's 'New' Life in Philodemus' Index Academicorum

 Kilian Fleischer

3 Crantor and the Earliest Phase of the Platonic Commentary Tradition

 Harold Tarrant and Dirk Baltzly

4 Crantor's Ethical Side: The Treatise On Grief and Other Related Questions

 Pia De Simone

5 On the 'Backstage' of Crantor's Ultimate Good

 Christian Vassallo

6 Crantor as the Author of AlcibiadesII

 Harold Tarrant

7 Crantor and the Psychogony in the Timaeus

 Svetoslava Slaveva-Griffin

8 Proclus on Crantor on Plato's Atlantis

 Christian Vassallo

Appendix: Literalist, Non-literalist, and Allegorical Interpretations of the Atlantis Story

 Christian Vassallo

Indices