Rate My Professor George Karamanolis

Univ.-Prof. Dr. George Karamanolis, MA, is University Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He earned his D.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Faculty of Literae Humaniores, Sub-faculty of Philosophy, Keble College, completing his doctoral studies from October 1995 to September 2001. His undergraduate and further studies were in classical philology and ancient philosophy at universities in Thessaloniki, London, and Oxford. Prior to his current full professorship, Karamanolis served as Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies from November 2009 to September 2014, followed by positions as Assistant Professor from 2014 and Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy since 2017 at the University of Vienna's Institute of Philosophy.

Karamanolis's research specializes in ancient philosophy, with emphasis on later ancient philosophy, Hellenistic philosophy, Plato and ancient Platonism, Aristotle and ancient Aristotelianism, and the philosophy of early Christianity. Key publications include his monograph Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry (Oxford University Press, 2006; revised paperback edition 2013), cited over 500 times; The Philosophy of Early Christianity (Acumen Publishing, 2013; second edition Routledge, 2021), cited approximately 200 times; and co-editor of Pseudo-Aristotle: On the Cosmos; A Commentary with Pavel Gregorić (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He co-translated and provided commentary for Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum into modern Greek (MIET - National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, 2021). Recent contributions feature chapters such as 'Plutarch' in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2023), 'Plethon and Scholarios on Using and Abusing Plato and Aristotle' (Oxford University Press, 2022), and 'Early Christian Philosophers on Concepts' (Cambridge University Press, 2021). With over 1,800 citations on Google Scholar, his work significantly impacts studies in ancient and late antique philosophy. Karamanolis received the University of Vienna Mobility Fellowship in 2020 for research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He supervises doctoral students and organizes workshops on topics including Origen as an early Christian philosopher and cosmic sympathy in Neoplatonism.