Crantor
Diogenes Laertius, Book IV - Crantor
26. Crantor admired Homer and Euripides above all other poets; it is hard, he
said, at once to write tragedy and to stir the emotions in the language of
everyday life. And he would quote the line from the story of Bellerophon:[23]
Alas! But why Alas? We have suffered the lot of mortals.
And it is said that there are extant[24] these lines of the poet Antagoras,
spoken by Crantor on Love:
My mind is in doubt, since thy birth is disputed, whether I am to call thee,
Love, the first of the immortal gods, the eldest of all the children whom old
Erebus and queenly Night brought to birth in the depths beneath wide Ocean; 27.
or art thou the child of wise Cypris, or of Earth, or of the Winds? So many are
the goods and ills thou devisest for men in thy wanderings. Therefore hast thou
a body of double form.
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