Professor Christopher Rowe
We have been reeling from the news that our beloved Advisory Board Chairman, and father of the Durham Classics & Ancient History Department, Professor Christopher Rowe, has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Phil and Edith spent a precious day with him and his wife Heather in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, where they live.
We held an in-person and online special event on 12th December 2024 at which he was the indispensable guest of honour.
Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its Audiences
During the summer, the team wrote and Edith edited our Special Issue of Rhetorica, entitled Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its Audiences. Advisory Board member Ralph Rosen kindly agreed to review it, and we have now incorporated his excellent suggestions and submitted the final articles, which are attached to the same email as this.
Public Aristotle
Parallel with the style-based work of this project, the other funded project of which Edith is PI, Aristotle beyond the Academy in Britain and Ireland 1660-1922, has featured a seminar series to which Edith and Alessandro contributed (Alessandro’s paper was entitled ‘Aristotle and the Orators in Margaret Doody’s Fourth-Century Athens’). We were thrilled on 6th November to host Sophia Connell, who is on the advisory board of both projects, when she delivered her brilliant paper ‘Aristotle, analytic philosophy and the birth of virtue ethics’, which focused on female philosophers in the 20th century. Edith’s Postgate Lecture at the University of Liverpool on December 3rd addressed the public reception of Aristotle in discussion of gender, slavery and politics and a version was published in the online journal Aeon on 25th November.
