Rate My Professor George Boys-Stones

A leading scholar of ancient philosophy, Boys-Stones specializes in Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic thought, including Middle Platonism, Stoicism (such as Panaetius and Cornutus), their influences on Cicero, Plutarch, and early Christian philosophers Athenagoras and Clement. He is the author or co-author of several influential 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, 2018), providing a comprehensive sourcebook for Middle Platonism; L. Annaeus Cornutus: Greek Theology, Fragments and Testimonia (SBL Press, 2018), the first complete edition; Plotinus: The Enneads (Cambridge University Press, 2018, co-edited); The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics (Hackett Publishing, 2013, with C. J. Rowe); Plato and Hesiod (Oxford University Press, 2010); The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (Oxford University Press, 2009); and Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has published numerous articles in leading venues such as Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and edited volumes.