Dr Dougal James Blyth

BA (Otago), PhD (Northwestern), MA

Senior Lecturer

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

Semester 2 2020

GREEK 707 Selected Greek Texts 1

ANCIENT 749 Themes and Issues in Ancient Culture

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

Faculty of Arts Staffing Committee

Disciplinary Convenor for Classics and Ancient History

Blyth, D. (2019). Plato's Socrates, Sophistic Antithesis and Scepticism. Plato Journal, 19, 25-42. 10.14195/2183-4105
Dougal Blyth (2018). God and Cosmos in Statesman 269c–270a and Aristotle. In B. Bossi, T. M. Robinson (Eds.) Plato's Statesman Revisited (pp. 107-118). Berlin: De Gruyter. 10.1515/9783110605549
Dougal Blyth (2017). Aristotle's God in Metaphysics 12.7. Classical Philology, 112 (2), 138-152. 10.1086/691551
Blyth, D. (2016). The role of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12.9. Méthexis, 28 (1), 76-92. 10.1163/24680974-02801005
Dougal Blyth (2016). Aristotle’s Ever-turning World in Physics 8: Analysis and Commentary (1st). Leiden & Boston: Brill. Pages: 434.
Blyth, D. (2015). Heavenly soul in Aristotle. Apeiron: a Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 48 (4), 427-465. 10.1515/apeiron-2013-0037
Blyth, D. (2014). Political Technê: Plato and the Poets. Polis: the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, 31 (2), 313-351. 10.1163/20512996-12340019
Blyth, D. (2013). Review of the book Plato’s Charmides: Positive Elenchus in a “Socratic” Dialogue, by Thomas M. Tuozzo. Classical Review (New series), 63 (1), 60-62. 10.1017/S0009840X12002351