Christopher Rowe (1944–) was educated at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham and Trinity College, Cambridge (1962-8: College Major Scholar, University Porson Scholar, Sandys Student; BA 1965, MA 1966, PhD 1969; his doctoral thesis, completed under the late John Easterling, was published as The Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics: a study in the development of Aristotle’s thought, CUP 1971). He was Professor of Greek at Durham University from 1995 to 2009 (Emeritus 2009–), having previously served as H.O.Wills Professor of Greek at Bristol University. He has held various visiting appointments, in Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada and elsewhere; he was a founding member of the International Plato Society, and its third President in 1992-5; Leverhulme Major Research Professor (1999-2004); Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow (2019-22); appointed OBE in 2009; awarded Chancellor’s Medal, Durham University in 2022. Translator and commentator on Plato: Phaedrus (Liverpool UP,1986), Phaedo (CUP, 1993), Symposium (LUP, 1998), Statesman (LUP, 1998); translator, Penguin Classics: Phaedrus (2005), The Last Days of Socrates (2010), Republic (2012); for Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy, Theaetetus and Sophist (2015). Editor, with Malcolm Schofield, of The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (2000). Monographs: (with Terry Penner) Plato’s Lysis (CUP, 2005); Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (CUP, 2007). His translation accompanied Sarah Broadie’s commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (OUP, 2002); his many other publications include more than 200 articles, book-chapters and reviews, and, most recently, a new Oxford Classical Text of the Eudemian Ethics, with the accompanying volume Aristotelica: Studies on the Text of Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics (September 2023).
