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Department of Philosophy & Social Studies
University of Crete
Campus of Rethymnon
74100 Rethymno
Greece

Phone number: ++30 2831077211/15/16
Fax number:++30 2831077222

George Karamanolis, Assistant Professor in Ancient Philosophy

Research interests: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
email: gkaramanolis@fks.uoc.gr, tel. 00302831077209, fax. 00302831077222

Education

• D.Phil. University of Oxford (Keble College), 2001
• M.Phil. in Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1995
• MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, King’s College London, 1994
• BA in Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1991

Teaching and Research Experience

• Professor in Ancient Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München (April – September 2012, Replacement/Lehrvertretung C. Rapp)
• Humboldt Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin (February 2010 - July 2011)
• Visiting Professor, Renmin University, Beijing (December 2008 - January 2009)
• Visiting Research Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (September - November 2008)
• Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete (2006 - 2010)
• Temporary lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete (2004 – 2006)
• Research in the Officina dei papiri, Naples, as fellow of the ‘Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi’ (February 2003 - September 2004)
• Tutor in Ancient Philosophy, University of Oxford (1998 - 2000)
• Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, New College, Oxford (Hilary and Trinity terms 1999)

Awards

• Humboldt fellowship, Humboldt University of Berlin (February 2010 – July 2011)
• Library grant, Princeton University Library (September 2009)
• Visiting research fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (September - November 2008)
• Research fellowship of the ‘Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi’ https://www.cispe.org/ (February 2003 - September 2004).
• Scholarship of the Greek State Foundation of Scholarships (IKY, 1995 - 1999)
• Leventis Foundation Scholarship (1993 - 1994)

Selected Publications

• The Philosophy of Early Christianity, London/Berkeley 2013 (Acumen/University of California Press; forthcoming September 2013)
• Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry, Oxford 2006 (OUP; Oxford Philosophical Monographs).
  https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/philosophy/9780199264568/toc.html
• G. Karamanolis and A. Sheppard (ed.), Studies on Porphyry, London 2007 (Supplement to the Bulletin of Classical Studies, vol. 98)
  https://icls.sas.ac.uk/institute/publicat.htm#SUPP98
•  “Pletho and Scholarios on Aristotle”, in K. Ierodiakonou (ed.), Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient  Sources, Oxford 2002, 253-282.
•  “Transformations of Plato’s Ethics: Platonist Interpretations of Plato’s Ethics from Antiochus to Porphyry”, Rhizai 1 (2004), 73-105.
• “Porphyry, the first Platonist Commentator of Aristotle”, in P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, M. Stone (ed.), Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin, London 2004, vol. 1, 79-113 (Supplement to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 83.1-2).
• “Plotinus on quality and immanent Form”, in R. Chiaradonna – F. Trabattoni (ed.), Philosophy of Nature in Neoplatonism, Leiden 2009, 71-109 (Philosophia Antiqua).
•  ‘Numenius’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online
  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/numenius/
• ‘Plutarch’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online
  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/
• “The Place of Ethics in Aristotle’s Philosophy”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 40 (2011), 133-156 (Essays in memory of Michael Frede).
• “Porphyry and Iamblichus”, J. Warren – F. Sheffield (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, London 2013 (forthcoming)

Current projects
The omnipresence of intelligible causes in the sensible world (esp. soul/intellect, Excellence Cluster Topoi, Berlin), The Stoic Invention of Values, Edition of PHerc 1038 (Chrysippus, On Providence)

CV available in PDF format

Ps-Aristotle, De mundo: A Commentary (link opens on new window)