Biography
Myrthe Bartels is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ethics and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Previously, she worked at Durham University, the University of Pisa and the University of Toronto. She specializes in ancient philosophy; 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