CRANTOR, a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, was born, probably about the middle of the 4th century B.C., at Soli in Cilicia. He was the first commentator on Plato. He is said to have written some poems which he sealed up and deposited in the temple of Athens at Soli (Ding. Laertius, iv. 5. 25). Of his celebrated work On Grief (Ilepi irivOovs), a letter of condolence to his friend Hippocles on the death of his children, numerous extracts have been preserved in Plutarch's Consolatio ad Apol lonium and in the De consolatione of Cicero, who speaks of it (Acad., ii. 44. 135) in the highest terms. Crantor's ethical theory arranged "good" things in the following order—virtue, health, pleasure, riches.