As Xenocrates died 314/3 BC, Crantor must have come to Athens prior to that year, although the date of his birth is not known.
[3] He left his fortune, which amounted to twelve talents, to Arcesilaus, who had been his pupil and who later succeeded Crates as scholarch of the Academy.
[5] He also made some attempts at poetry; and Diogenes Laërtius relates, that, after sealing up a collection of his poems, he deposited them in the temple of Athena in his native city, Soli.
[8] The most popular of Crantor's works in Rome seems to have been that "On Grief" (Latin: De Luctu, Greek: Περὶ Πένθους), which was addressed to his friend Hippocles on the death of his son, and from which Cicero seems to have heavily relied upon in his Tusculan Disputations.
Crantor paid special attention to ethics, and arranged "good" things in the following order - virtue, health, pleasure, riches.