Christopher Rowe (classicist)

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]

Prof Christopher Rowe in 2012

Thought on Plato

Rowe translated into English and gave an innovative interpretation of the Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the Plato's dialogues Theaetetus and Sophist.[3]

He compared the ideal-real relation existing among the Republic and the Theaetetus for what concerns the epistemology, and then he established an analogy with the political ideal of the Republic and its real actualization described in the Statesman and in the Laws.[4] In the volume Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, Rowe argued that "Plato remains throughout essentially a Socratic".[5][4]

Selected publications
  • Plato, Republic (new translation, with introduction and notes) Penguin, 2012, ISBN 9780141442433
  • The Last Days of Socrates Penguin, 2010, ISBN 9780140455496
  • Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780521859325
  • 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). Revues.org (10). 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.


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