Abstract

This book, which is dedicated by the late Eugene Tigerstedt to Harold Cherniss, has not received the attention it deserves. It is a comprehensive survey of the history of the interpretation of Plato, or more accurately, of the history of the various frameworks assumed in interpretations of Plato. The book is concerned not so much with interpretations of particular passages as with the basic presuppositions which inevitably guide and shape interpretations. The subject of the book is not only timely, it is discussed with extraordinary erudition; indeed, the book is worth reading for the footnotes alone, which consume almost one third of it and which demonstrate that T. has missed almost nothing of importance in his survey of the relevant literature.