Brill's Companion to Crantor of Soli

Christian Vassallo, Pia de Simone, Kilian Josef Fleischer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70876-1 (ISBN)

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This book is the first entirely devoted to Crantor of Soli, an outstanding figure of the Old Academy. It aims at providing the most complete picture of Crantor’s philosophy and life by gathering the contributions of various renowned scholars.

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.

Christian Vassallo (Ph.D., Naples) has been Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA) and is currently Full Professor of Papyrology at the University of Turin, where he is Principal Investigator of the ERC-Consolidator Grant 101086695-APATHES (a.k.a. ‘The New von Arnim Project’). Pia De Simone (Ph.D., Salerno), has been Principal Investigator of the DFG-Projekt Krantor von Soloi: Der letzte der Altakademiker at Trier University and Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Magdalene College. Currently, she is Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan. Her research interests focus on Plato and the Platonic Tradition, particularly the Old Academy and Middle Platonism. Kilian Fleischer (Ph.D. and habilitation in Classics, Würzburg), conducted research at Oxford, Naples, Pisa, and Notre Dame (IN, USA). He has published four monographs (2016, 2020, 2022, 2023) with a focus on Hellenistic philosophy, ancient Christianity, didactic poetry, Herculaneum papyri, and imaging techniques.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to Philosophy / Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy ; 9
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-70876-6 / 9004708766
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70876-1 / 9789004708761
Zustand	Neuware