ABSTRACT
The successors of Xenoerates at the head of the Academy were Polemon, whose teaching was chiefly concerned with morals, and Crates of Athens, with whom Crantor was connected. Crantor was perhaps the earliest commentator on Plato; with his famous book On Grief lie founded the literary form of the “Consolation,” which was afterwards so popular. None of these thinkers seems to have departed from the Platonic tradition, at least in the form established by Xeno-crates.
