Dr Dougal James Blyth
BA (Otago), PhD (Northwestern), MA
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
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- 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
Identifiers
Contact details
- +64 9 923 7421
- +64.9.923.7421
- dougal.blyth@auckland.ac.nz
- Media Contact
Primary office location
ARTS 1 - Bldg 206
Level 1, Room 113
14A SYMONDS ST
AUCKLAND CENTRAL
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand