Christopher Rowe (classicist)

Christopher James Rowe OBE (born 17 March 1944) is a British classical scholar.

[1] Rowe was born in Cambridgeshire, England on 17 March 1944, the son of Daniel Francis and Edith Mary (Ashford).

[2] His doctoral thesis, written under the direction of John Easterling, was published as The Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics: a study in the development of Aristotle’s thought.

[4] He joined the University of Durham in 1996 as Professor of Greek and served as Head of Department 2004–2008.

[3] Rowe translated into English and gave an innovative interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Plato's dialogues Theaetetus and Sophist.