of Plato Today," the leading Plato scholar Lloyd Gerson argued that the approaches to Plato shaped by the work of Cherniss and Vlastos have come to dominate contemporary Plato scholarship in the English-speaking world and (wrongly, he argues) led to the dismissal of the Tübingen approach that dominates in continental Europe: While acknowledging the highest level of scholarship in Cherniss's book Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy, I think the influence of this book has been largely baleful. Vlastos's review in Gnomon inadvertently made matters worse … The divergence in the work of much European and North American Plato scholarship since 1950 can be traced, I believe, to the respect paid or not paid to Aristotle's testimony about Plato's philosophy. Other works Cherniss's edition of some of Plutarch's works, Stoic and Platonic Works (1967), won the Charles J. Goodwin award from the American Philological Society. Awards and honors Cherniss was a fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Academy of Arts and Science of Goteborg, of the Academie Royale Flamande de Scis., of the Lettres et Beaux Arts de Belgique. He has an honorary degree from Brown University (L.H.D.) in 1976. Publications Books The Platonism of Gregory of Nyssa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930). Aristotle's Criticism of Presocratic Philosophy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1935; reprint: New York: Octagon Books, 1964). Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1944). The Riddle of the Early Academy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1945). Selected Papers (Leiden: Brill, 1977). Articles "The Philosophical Economy of the Theory of Ideas", American Journal of Philology 57 (1936): 445–456. "Plato as Mathematician", Review of Metaphysics, 4 (1951): 395–425. "The Characteristics and Effects of Presocratic Philosophy", Journal of the History of Ideas 12 (1951): 319–345. Translations Plutarch's Moralia, Vol. 12. (with W. C. Helmbold) (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957). Plutarch's Moralia, Vol. 13 Part 2. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976). References External links 1979 Audio Interview with Harold Cherniss by Martin Sherwin Voices of the Manhattan Project New York Times obituary: Harold F. Cherniss 1904 births 1987 deaths American classical scholars American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent American philosophy academics Jewish American historians Classical scholars of Cornell University Institute for Advanced Study faculty Classical scholars of the Institute for Advanced Study Classical scholars of Johns Hopkins University 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Corresponding