Christopher James Rowe OBE (born 1944) 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". Thought on Plato Rowe translated into English and gave an innovative interpretation of the Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the Plato's dialogues Theaetetus and Sophist. He compared the ideal-real relation existing among the Republic and the Theaetetus for what concerns the epistemology, and then he established an analogy with the political ideal of the Republic and its real actualization described in the Statesman and in the Laws. In the volume Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, Rowe argued that "Plato remains throughout essentially a Socratic". Selected publications Plato, Republic (new translation, with introduction and notes) Penguin, 2012, The Last Days of Socrates Penguin, 2010, Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Cambridge University Press, 2007, with Terry Penner Plato's Lysis Cambridge University Press, 2005 References Living people British classical scholars Classical scholars of the University of Durham British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy Officers of the Order of the British Empire Greek–English translators Presidents of the Classical Association 1944 births