25-26 January 2024

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.

This event is open to the public. It will be in person and accessible via Zoom. A provisional schedule appears below. Anyone who is interested to attend (either in person or remotely) is asked to contact Prof. Phillip Horky ([email protected]) by 17 January 2024.

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

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