Philomythia

Aristotle’s Uses of Previous Literatures

The Durham-based ERC/UKRI-funded research project, "Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Greek Prose", invites proposals, especially from Early Career Researchers and postgraduate students, for papers to be delivered at our international conference, "Philomythia: Aristotle’s Use of Previous Literatures", on…

Newsflash: Upcoming Conference

Next year, on June 16^th-18^th 2026, we will be convening a major international conference, Philomythia: Aristotle’s Use of Previous Literatures, which will segue into a workshop run by Alessandro, The Languages of Greek Sciences. Alessandro will be issuing his own CfP in due…

Despite knowing it was imminent, the death of our beloved Advisory Board chairman Christopher Rowe a month ago has knocked us for six, especially Phil and me. This is the obituary I wrote, which will be published in this year’s JHS, along with this picture, which combines his typical grin with his equally typical nouthetic finger:

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.

Over the course of 2023-2024, we stuck to schedule and succeeded in reading together Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Poetics and the logical works that constitute the so-called Organon, as well as parts of Eudemian Ethics. We provided an account of our activities until Christmas 2023 during the closing session of the event On Christopher Rowe’s Eudemian…