Christopher Rowe (classicist)

Christopher James Rowe OBE (born 1944 ) 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".

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.

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. In the volume Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, Rowe argued that "Plato remains throughout essentially a Socratic".

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