Crantor

Crantor arrives from Soli, becomes a devoted pupil of Xenocrates alongside Polemo, and earns a reputation for exquisite taste — he loved Homer and Euripides, coined vivid phrases like a tragedian's voice 'all over bark,' and wrote 30,000 lines of his own. When ill, he withdrew to the temple of Aesculapius and drew crowds who thought he was founding a school rather than dying; he left his fortune to Arcesilaus and asked to be buried in a well-loved land. He matters as the Academy's most literary soul, the man who showed that philosophy could be written with a poet's ear.