This workshop aims to celebrate this monumental publication, along with Rowe's companion book Aristotelica: Studies on the Text of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (Oxford University Press), through a critical engagement with Rowe's new text and ideas. The workshop also marks the public launch of the ‘Aristoteles Pezographos’ Project.
On Rowe’s Eudemian Ethics:
A Workshop on Philosophical and Textual Creativity
Durham University
Joachim Room
College of St Hild & St Bede
Durham, DH1 1SZ
And Remotely on Zoom
Sponsored by the 5-year Research Project ‘Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Ancient Greek Prose’ (funded by United Kingdom Research and Innovation), Durham Centre for Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, Durham University Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Oxford University Press
In 2023, Christopher J. Rowe OBE (Prof. Emeritus, Durham) produced a new edition of one of the most perplexing and controversial texts of ancient philosophy, Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (Oxford Classical Texts series, Oxford University Press) - a text Rowe has worked on his entire professional career. This workshop aims to celebrate this monumental publication, along with Rowe's companion book Aristotelica: Studies on the Text of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics (Oxford University Press), through a critical engagement with Rowe's new text and ideas. The workshop will feature an international group of specialists in Aristotle's ethics who will assess the changed landscape of Aristotle studies in the wake of Rowe's contributions.
This workshop also marks the public launch the UKRI-funded 5-year research project 'Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Ancient Greek Prose' (PI: Prof. Edith Hall FBA; Co-I: Prof. Phillip Horky), in association with the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP). At the workshop, Prof. Hall will introduce this major project, as well as the Durham Lyceum research group, and outline the future plans and goals of our collaborative research.
Thursday 25 January 2024
12:30pm-1pm: Coffee/Tea
1pm-1:15pm: Welcome by Phillip Horky (Durham) & Christopher Rowe (Durham)
1:15pm-2:45pm: ‘What are Friends for? Some Remarks on the Edition of EE VII 12’
Friedemann Buddensiek (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Chair: George Gazis (Durham)
2:45pm-3pm: Tea/Coffee
3pm-4:30pm: ‘The Virtues of Theoretical Thinking in the EE's Unity of the Virtues’
Giulia Bonasio (Durham)
Chair: Anna Marmodoro (Durham)
4:30pm-6pm: ‘Remarks on the Chart (ὑπογραφή) in EE ii 3’
Robert Mayhew (Seton Hall)
Chair: Sara Uckelman (Durham)
Friday 26 January 2024
9:30am-10am: Coffee/Tea
10am-11:30pm: ‘Analysis of Some Passages from Eudemian Ethics VII/IV in Rowe’s Edition’ (provisional title)
Sophia Connell (Birkbeck, London)
Chair: Edith Hall (Durham)
11:30pm-1pm: Roundtable Discussion with Giulio di Basilio (Frankfurt), Bjorn Wastvedt (Lisbon), Daniel Ferguson (KCL)
Chair: Phillip Horky (Durham)
1pm-2:30pm: Lunch (not organized)
2:30pm-4pm: ‘Children and Other Animals: Two Disputed Passages in the Eudemian Ethics and the Editor's Choices’
Karen Margrethe Nielsen (Somerville, Oxford)
Chair: Raphael Woolf (KCL)
4pm-5:30pm: Introduction to the ‘Aristoteles Pezographos’ Project, by the Durham Lyceum Team: Edith Hall, Rosie Wyles, Alessandro Vatri, Phillip Horky
