num_pages: 121
description: Harold Fredrik Cherniss (19046/18/87) ancient Greek philosophy professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton NJ wrote many books &amp; articles in his field &amp; was an editor &amp; translator of Plutarch's Moralia for the Loeb Classical Library. His books included works on Aristotle's criticism of Plato &amp; pre-Platonic philosophy. He was born in St. Joseph MO &amp; graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his doctorate in Greek Latin &amp; Sanskrit at Berkeley in 1930. That year he became an instructor in Greek at Cornell University. He later moved to Johns Hopkins &amp; held a professorship at the University of California before joining the Institute in Princeton in 1948. Delivered 4/42 as lectures at Berkeley:Contents:Plato's lectures: a hypothesis for an enigmaSpeusippus Xenocrates &amp; the polemical method of AristotleThe Academy: orthodoxy heresy or philosophical interpretation?
language: English
title: The Riddle of the Early Academy
publisher: University of California Press (Berkeley)