Biography
Myrthe Bartels is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ethics and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, funded by an MSC-CZ Grant. She works on ancient philosophy, specializing in the ethics and political thought of Plato and Aristotle. Previously, she worked at Durham University, the University of Pisa and the University of Toronto. Much of her work centres on how ancient texts construe the relation between philosophy and politics. In her current project, she looks at how Plato conceptualizes the philosopher's obligations to their society. She received her doctorate in Classics from Leiden University.
Research interests
- ancient philosophy
- ancient ethics and political thought
- political theory
Publications (selection)
- (forthcoming). “Plato: envisioning a new society: Plato’s Laws”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Political Thought, ed. Carol Atack. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- “Academic Disputations on Love: Socrates in Seventeenth-Century Opera”, in Music as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity, eds. Emily Pillinger and Miranda Stanyon. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2025, 164‒179.
- “Aristotle on Citizenship, Scholē and Democracy”, in Utopia and Democracy: Theories, Practices, Fictions, eds. Zsolt Czigányik and Iva Dimovska. Palgrave Studies in Utopianism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2025, 75‒89.
- Plato’s Pragmatic Project. A Reading of Plato’s Laws. Hermes Einzelschriften 111. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag 2017.
Email: myrthe.bartels@upce.cz
Location: Building G, 07 023
ORCID: 0000-0002-6274-8941