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Prof. George Boys-Stones, MA (Cantab.), DPhil (Oxon.)

(email at g.r.boys-stones@durham.ac.uk)

Areas of Doctoral Supervision

Most areas and periods of ancient philosophy, especially the Hellenistic schools, and post-Hellenistic Platonist and Christian philosophy.

Biography

George Boys-Stones is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Durham, currently pursuing research as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has published on a wide range of topics in the field, but has a special interest in so-called 'Middle' Platonism and its polemical interactions with Stoicism and early Christian philosophy: current projects include a critical sourcebook for this material, to be published by Cambridge University Press. Prof. Boys-Stones is Managing Editor of the ancient philosophy journal Phronesis, has been a member of the Council of the Hellenic Society, currently sits on the Council of the Classical Association, and  is a member of the Advisory Board for Brill's Ancient Philosophical Commentary on the Pauline Writings. Further information (including a complete publication list) is available on his home page.

Current PhD Students

Laura Goodhand, Craftsmanship and Teleology in Plato
Jun Yeob Lee, The 'Ιnconceivable' (ἀπερίληπτον) in Epicurean Physics

Publications

Books: authored

• Boys-Stones, G. R. & Rowe, C. J. (2013). The Circle of Socrates. Readings in the First-Generation Socratics. Hackett Publishing Co.
• Swain, Simon., Boys-Stones, G. R., Elsner, J., Ghersetti, A., Hoyland, R. & Repath, I. (2007). Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2001). Post-Hellenistic Philosophy. A study of its development from the Stoics to Origen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Books: edited

• Boys-Stones, G. R. & Haubold, J. H. (2010). Plato and Hesiod. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Boys-Stones, George, Graziosi, Barbara & Vasunia, Phiroze (2009). The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2003). Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions. Oxford University Press.

Edited works: contributions

• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2009). Cornutus und sein philosophisches Umfeld: Der Antiplatonismus der Epidrome. In . Cornutus: Die griechischen Götter. Ein Überlick über Namen, Bilder und Deutungen. Nesselrath, H.G. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck. 141-161.
• Boys-Stones, G.R. (2006). entries on: Knowledge, Mind and Body, Paradoxes, Philodemos, Poseidonios, Presocratic Philosophy, Theophrastos, and Zeno of Citium. In The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, D. Mattingly & L. Foxhall Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Essays in edited volumes

• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2013). The Consolatio ad Apollonium: Therapy for the Dead. In Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife. Baltussen, H. Classical Press of Wales. 123-37.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2012). Antiochus' Metaphysics. In The Philosophy of Antiochus. Sedley, D.N. Cambridge University Press. 220-236.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2009). Ancient Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction. In History of Western Philosophy of Religion. Vol. 1: The Philosophy of Religion in Classical Antiquity. Oppy, G. & Trakakis, N. Durham: Acumen. 1-22.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2009). Polyclitus among the Philosophers: Canons of Classical Beauty. In Flesh and Blood: The Body and the Arts. Saunders, Corinne, Maude, Ulrika & Macnaughton, Jane Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 11-24.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2007). 'Middle' Platonists on Fate and Human Autonomy. In Greek and Roman philosophy, 100BC to 200AD. Sharples, R. W. & Sorabji, R. London:
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2007). Fallere Sollers. The Ethical Pedagogy of the Stoic Cornutus. In Greek and Roman philosophy, 100BC to 200AD. Sharples, R. W. & Sorabji, R. K. London:
• Boys-Stones, G.R. (2007). Human Autonomy and Divine Revelation in Origen. In Severan Culture. Swain, Simon, Harrison, Stephen & Elsner, Jas Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 489-499.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2005). Alcinous, Didaskalikos 4: In Defence of Dogmatism. In L'eredità platonica. Studi sul platonismo da Arcesilao a Proclo. Bonazzi, M. & Celluprica, V. Naples: Bibliopolis. 203-234.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2003). The Stoics’ Two Types of Allegory. In Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions. Boys-Stones, G. R. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 189-216.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (1997). Thyrsus-bearer of the Academy or enthusiast for Plato? Plutarch's de Stoicorum repugnantiis. In Plutarch and his Intellectual World. Mossman, J. Duckworth. 41-58.

Journal papers: academic

• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2012). Harpocration of Argos: Etymology and Metaphysics in the Platonist Revival. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 132: 1-6.
• Boys-Stones, G.R. (2011). Time, Creation and the Mind of God: The Afterlife of a Platonist Theory in Origen. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 40: 319-337.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2004). Phaedo of Elis and Plato on the Soul. Phronesis 49(1): 1-23.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (2000). A Fragment of Carneades the Cynic? Mnemosyne 53: 528-536.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (1998). Eros in Government: Zeno and the Virtuous City. Classical Quarterly 48: 168-174.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (1998). Plutarch on koinos logos: towards an architecture of de Stoicorum repugnantiis. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 16: 299-329.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (1997). Locating the Cosmos: an Academic Argument Against Chrysippus. Mnemosyne 50: 577-585.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (1997). Plutarch on the probable principle of cold: Epistemology and the de primo frigido. Classical Quarterly 47: 227-38.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (1996). Plutarch, de Stoicorum repugnantiis 1048DE. Classical Quarterly 46: 591-595.
• Boys-Stones, G. R. (1996). The epeleustike dunamis in Aristo's psychology of action. Phronesis 41: 75-94.