Christopher James Rowe OBE (born 1944[1]) is a British classical scholar. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Ancient History of Durham University, England, where he was Head of Department 2004–2008. He is a former President of the Classical Association, and was appointed OBE in 2009 for "services to scholarship".[2]
Thought on Plato
editRowe translated into English and gave an innovative interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Plato's dialogues Theaetetus and Sophist.[3]
Rowe's work includes consideration of the political ideals of Plato's Republic in relation to the details of political practice described in the Statesman and the Laws.[4] In the volume Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, Rowe argued that "Plato remains throughout essentially a Socratic".[5][4]
He delivered the Stephen MacKenna lecture at Dublin University in 2009.[6] In years prior he had also been invited to talk about mythology in primary schools.[7]
Selected publications
edit- Written with George Boys-Stones The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics (edited and translated) Hackett Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781603849364
- Plato, Republic (new translation, with introduction and notes) Penguin, 2012, ISBN 9780141442433
- The Last Days of Socrates (translated with introduction and notes) Penguin, 2010, ISBN 9780140455496
- Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780521859325
- Written with Terry Penner Plato's Lysis Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 9780521791304
References
edit- ^ "108457879: Rowe, Christopher James, 1944". viaf.org. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ "Prof. Christopher Rowe, OBE, MA, PhD (Cantab.)". Department of Classics and Ancient History: Staff. Durham University. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ Rowe, Christopher (26 May 2016). "Getting to know Plato". Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ a b Maffi, Emanuele (2013). "Christopher Rowe, Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing". Bulletin Platonicien. Commentaires Aux Dialogues de Platon (in Italian) (10). Revues.org. doi:10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.224. ISSN 2275-1785. OCLC 7685568088. Retrieved 7 January 2021. (critical recension)
- ^ Rowe, Christopher (2007). Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing. Cambridge University Press. p. 18. ISBN 9781139467797.
- ^ Rowe, Christopher (2009). "Reading Socrates in Plato's Dialogues (Stephen MacKenna Lecture, Dublin, January 2009)". Hermathena (186): 25–41. ISSN 0018-0750 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Tyler, Christian (31 January 1998). "The logic of learning Latin". The Financial Times. p. iv – via Internet Archive.
Christopher Rowe, professor of Greek at Durham University, is invited to talk to primary schools about mythology. 'I find it exhilarating. ! don't mind at what level l teach people, so long as I have people to teach.'
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