Dr Dougal James Blyth

Research | Current

• Aristotle's metaphysics and cosmology
• A study of the generic and political relations among philosophy, tragedy and comedy in late 5th to 4th century BC Athens (Socrates, Aristophanes, Euripides and Plato)
• Origins of philosophy in Rome

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Dougal Blyth, “Theorising Roman Cult: Augustine on Varro”, in Sonya Wurster and Rhiannon Evans (eds.), Theorising Rome (Newcastle:  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021), 49-66.

Dougal Blyth, “The Uses of Polemic in Ancient Philosophy”, in Tom Stevenson (ed.), Ancient Polemic (Acta Classica Supplement 9, 2021), forthcoming (19 pp.).

Dougal Blyth, “Dialectic and Forms in Prm. 137c-144e”, in Luc Brisson, A. Macé and O. Renaut (eds.), Collected Papers of the Symposium Platonicum XII:  Plato’s Parmenides (Baden-Baden:  Nomos Verlag, forthcoming) (9 pp.).

Teaching | Current

Semester 2 2020

GREEK 707 Selected Greek Texts 1

ANCIENT 749 Themes and Issues in Ancient Culture

Postgraduate supervision

Student theses and dissertations completed or now underway on:

1. Greek philosophy

    Plato’s method, metaphysics and political theory

    Aristotle’s metaphysics and political theory

    the Presocratic philosophers

2. Greek drama

    Aristophanes

    Greek tragedy

3. Roman philosophical texts

    Cicero’s philosophical dialogues

4. Roman drama

    Terence

Areas of expertise

• Ancient Greek language and literature
• Ancient philosophy
• Greek and Roman drama

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Faculty of Arts Staffing Committee

Disciplinary Convenor for Classics and Ancient History