Christopher Rowe (classicist)

Prof Christopher Rowe in 2012

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

Rowe 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

• 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

1. "108457879: Rowe, Christopher James, 1944". viaf.org. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
2. "Prof. Christopher Rowe, OBE, MA, PhD (Cantab.)". Department of Classics and Ancient History: Staff. Durham University. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
3. Rowe, Christopher (26 May 2016). "Getting to know Plato". Retrieved 7 January 2020.
4. 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)
5. Rowe, Christopher (2007). Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing. Cambridge University Press. p. 18. ISBN 9781139467797.
6. Rowe, Christopher (2009). "Reading Socrates in Plato's Dialogues (Stephen MacKenna Lecture, Dublin, January 2009)". Hermathena (186): 25–41. ISSN 0018-0750 – via JSTOR.
7. 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.'