Unmarried Male Platonists on Death in the Family: How Did Crantor’s Peri Penthous Become a Model?

Title: Unmarried Male Platonists on Death in the Family: How Did Crantor’s Peri Penthous Become a Model?
Creator: Tarrant, Harold
Relation: Epoche Vol. 28, Issue 1, p. 113-123
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/epoche2023914235
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2023
Description: In this paper I ask what it is that adds credibility to Crantor (d. 276/5 BC) as an authority on managing one’s grief, especially grief at the loss of children. At first sight the homoerotic ethos of the Academy in his time made it unlikely that high profile members would have concerned themselves with children of their own. The primary source used is Plutarch’s Consolation to Apollonius, where it is clear that immediate suppression of grief and other natural feelings is not intended, nor must rationality always override them. Rather the consolation helps to produce a pause that allows reason to gradually bring such feelings down to a rational level. Texts associated with Crantor already idealize suspension of judgment at times of pressure, even if his partner Arcesilaus took this epokhê further.
Subject: Crantor; grief; children; death
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1496824
Identifier: uon:54251
Identifier: ISSN:1085-1968
Language: eng
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