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

2019 Semester 1

ANCHIST 739 Greek Language (Higher)

ANCHIST 749A Themes and Issues in Ancient Culture

GREEK 200 Ancient Greek Language Acquisition: Intermediate

GREEK 201 Ancient Greek Literary Texts 2A

GREEK 301 Ancient Greek Literary Texts 3A

2019 Semester 2

Research Leave

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

Classics Schools Day Convenor (2019 Semester 1)

Associate Undergraduate Advisor (2018-9 Summer)

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
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/22966
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
Blyth, D. (2012). Socrates and Platonic Models of Love. In M. Johnson, H. Tarrant (Eds.) Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator (pp. 30-44). Bristol: Bristol Classical. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/12995
Blyth, D. (2012). Suffering and Ancient Therapy: Plato to Cicero. In J. Malpas, N. Lickiss (Eds.) Perspectives on Human Suffering (pp. 131-154). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer.