Christopher James RoweOBE (born 17 March 1944) is a British classical scholar. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Ancient History of Durham University, England .He is a former President of the Classical Association, and was appointed OBE in 2009 for "services to scholarship".[1]
Rowe was born in Cambridgeshire, England on 17 March 1944, the son of Daniel Francis and Edith Mary (Ashford). From Trinity College, Cambridge he obtained a BA, then an MA and, in 1969, his PhD.[2] His doctoral thesis, written under the direction of John Easterling, was published as The Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics: a study in the development of Aristotle’s thought. (1971).[3]
Rowe began his career at the University of Bristol, England in 1968 as an assistant lecturer, 1968, rising to become professor of ancient philosophy and Greek (1989–1991) then Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek (1991–1995).[4] He joined the University of Durham in 1996 as Professor of Greek and served as Head of Department 2004–2008.[1] He retired as emeritus in 2009.[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.[6] In the volume Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, Rowe argued that "Plato remains throughout essentially a Socratic".[7][6]
He delivered the Stephen MacKenna lecture at Dublin University in 2009.[8] In years prior he had also been invited to talk about mythology in primary schools.[9]
Selected publications
Written with George Boys-Stones The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics (edited and translated) Hackett Publishing, 2013, ISBN9781603849364
Plato, Republic (new translation, with introduction and notes) Penguin, 2012, ISBN9780141442433
The Last Days of Socrates (translated with introduction and notes) Penguin, 2010, ISBN9780140455496
Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN9780521859325
Written with Terry Penner Plato's Lysis Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN9780521791304
A complete listing of works (as of 2014) can be found via Rowe's faculty pages.[10]
↑ 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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