Preview In 2017, when presenting his text-in-progress of book 2 of the Eudemian Ethics to the Symposium Aristotelicum in Athens, the late Christopher Rowe said, only half in jest, that he hoped to live long enough to finish his new critical text of the EE, as previous editors, notably Richard Walzer, had not been able to do. Rowe got his wish, and his splendid Oxford Classical Text of this problematic Aristotelian work appeared in 2023, two years before his death at the age of 81.