From Plato to Platonism"Gerson's book is a highly valuable, well written contribution to Platonism research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. From this point, Plato appears as a Platonist indeed." Claas Lattman CLASSICAL JOURNAL Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the