Professor & Chair
LI 210
416-978-3178
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Ancient Philosophy
Biography
George Boys-Stones os a leading scholar of Ancient Philosophy with wide ranging interests, George has a special interest in the philosophical movements of the post-Hellenistic period. Before coming to Toronto he was Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. He is the author or co-author of five books, most recently L. Annaeus Cornutus: Greek Theology, Fragments, and Testimonia. (SBL Press). In addition, he has co-edited four volumes (2003-2013). He is author of a new source book for (and introduction to) ‘Middle Platonism’. (A free download of the original Greek and Latin texts, formatted to match the published volume, is available from the CUP website for the book).
Education
DPhil, Oxford University
Publications
- L. Annaeus Cornutus: The Greek Theology, Fragments and Testimonia (SBL : 2018)
- Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (Cambridge University Press : 2017)
- The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics (Hackett Publishing : 2013)
- The Platonic Art of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press : 2013)
- Plato and Hesiod (Oxford University Press : 2010)
- The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (Oxford University Press : 2009)
- Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions (Oxford University Press : 2003)
- Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of its Development from the Stoics to Origen (Oxford University Press : 2001)
Administrative Service
Chair (2023-2029)