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Christopher James Rowe OBE (born 1944[1]) 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".[2]
Rowe translated into English and gave an innovative interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Plato's dialogues Theaetetus and Sophist.[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.[4] In the volume Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, Rowe argued that "Plato remains throughout essentially a Socratic".[5][4]
He delivered the Stephen MacKenna lecture at Dublin University in 2009.[6] In years prior he had also been invited to talk about mythology in primary schools.[7]
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- 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
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