1st Edition
Aristotle Beyond the Academy in Britain and Ireland 1660-1922
Introduction: The mighty Stagyrite (Edith Hall); Politics and Society; 1. Constitutional Aristotle (Edith Hall); 2. Aristotle and the Abolition of Slavery (Edith Hall); 3. Aristotle and the Status of Women (Edith Hall); 4. Aristotle and Democratic Reform (Edith Hall); Science, Technology and Health; 5. Science, Christianity and the Royal Society (Edith Hall); 6. Applying Aristotelian Science 1660-1760 (Edith Hall); 7. The Mystery of Aristotle’s Masterpiece (Rory McInnes-Gibbons); 8. Nature’s Hierarchy from Aristotle to Darwin (Peter Swallow); 9. George Henry Lewes, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Aristotle’s Natural History (Rory McInnes-Gibbons); Oratory and the Arts; 10. Aristotle and the Clergy (Arlene Holmes-Henderson); 11. Jurists and Jurisprudence (Edith Hall and Arlene Holmes-Henderson); 12. Controversies over the Arts (Edith Hall); 13. Laughing at Aristotle (Edith Hall).
Biography
Edith Hall FBA is Professor of Classics at Durham University and Co-Founder as well as Consultant Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University.
Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE is Professor of Classics Education and Public Policy at Durham University. She is also a civil servant, working in the Government Office for Science on a part-time basis.
Rory McInnes-Gibbons is a postdoctoral researcher on the Leverhulme-funded project Aristotle Beyond the Academy at Durham University working alongside Professor Edith Hall and Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson.
Peter Swallow was the full-time research fellow for the project working on the popular reception of Aristotle’s natural science (2022 to 2024). On July 4th, 2024 Peter was elected to Parliament as the first Labour MP for the Bracknell constituency. He now chairs the Classics All-Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster.
