Tribute to Bob Sharples

Abstract

Bob Sharples joined me in London in a different college in 1973, and we worked closely together for 37 years until his untimely death at the age of 61. Our collaboration included innumerable research seminars, many teaching classes and publications and a very good number of conferences, with an emphasis on post‐Aristotelian Philosophy. He became one of the world's leading experts on the school of Aristotle and the leading scholar in the English‐speaking world on Aristotle's greatest interpreter and defender, Alexander of Aphrodisias. His characteristically generous messages to participants after seminars were an immense aid to everyone else's research. He taught not only in University College, London, where he became Professor and Head of the Department of Greek and Latin, but also in the Institute of Classical Studies, and for the Open University. His courage in bereavement and illness was remarkable, and his enormous bibliography, printed here, but excluding individual book reviews and posthumous forthcoming publications, is one sign of the indelible mark he has left on the subject.