Rate My Professor George Boys-Stones

George Boys-Stones is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, serving as Chair of the Department of Classics since July 2023. He was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, earning a BA in Classics from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1992, a DPhil on Plutarch from Oxford University, and a LittD from Cambridge. Following a Junior Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1995 to 1998 and a teaching fellowship in the Classics Department at Bristol University, he held a permanent position in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University for 20 years until 2019, where he served as Chair from 2009 to 2012, took leadership roles in national subject bodies for Classics, and served twice on the REF national review panel for Classics. He joined the University of Toronto in 2019 and has been Managing Editor of Phronesis since 2012. His contributions have been recognized with a Jackman Humanities Institute Research Fellowship in 2020 and an SSHRC Connection Grant in 2022.

Boys-Stones has wide-ranging interests in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with a special focus on the philosophical movements of the post-Hellenistic period. He is currently working on the Stoic Panaetius and his influence on Cicero and Plutarch, and on the Christian philosophers Athenagoras and Clement. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of its Development from the Stoics to Origen (Oxford University Press, 2001), Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (Cambridge University Press, 2017), L. Annaeus Cornutus: The Greek Theology, Fragments and Testimonia (SBL Press, 2018), The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics (Hackett Publishing, 2013), The Platonic Art of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Plato and Hesiod (Oxford University Press, 2010). He has also co-edited volumes such as Plotinus: The Enneads (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and published numerous articles in outlets including Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and Phronesis.