Giouli Korobili

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Ancient Greek and Roman Literature

O.G.G. of Appointment
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Email: gkorobili@hotmail.com
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Giouli Korobili is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina. Her research interests include: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Lucretius, Seneca), Ancient science (Medicine, Biology, Botany, Meteorology, Astronomy), Byzantine Commentators (Michael Psellus, Eustratius of Nicaea, Michael of Ephesus, Theodorus Metochites), History and Methodology of ancient science. Korobili completed her doctoral studies in Aristotle and Hippocratic medicine with a fellowship from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2018. Until 2020, she worked as a Post-doctoral fellow of Berlin Cluster of Excellence ‘TOPOI’ and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). Between 2020 and 2023, Korobili worked as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (EU) Fellow at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) focusing on ancient Greek and Roman meteorology. Before joining the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina she was a Research Fellow of the Einstein Center Chronoi in Berlin examining the concept of time and especially synchronicity between living things and their natural environment. She has published widely in academic journals and collective volumes and she is a reviewer in Ancient Philosophy, Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, British Journal for the History of Philosophy και Classical Philology.

Studies

2014-2017: PhD in Classics (Magna cum Laude), Institute of Classical Philology, Humboldt University of Berlin. PhD thesis: Centering on Life. Aristotle’s On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration chapters 1-6. Translation, Commentary and Interpretive Essays. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk, Prof. Dr. Markus Asper.

2011-2014: MA in Classics (Excellent), Department of Classics, University of Ioannina, Greece. MA thesis: Common to Body and Soul. The Concept of Death in Aristotle (in modern Greek). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maria Liatsi

2003-2008: BA in Classics (Very Good), Department of Classics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Research interests
  • Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
  • Ancient science
  • Byzantine Commentators
  • History and Methodology of ancient science
Publications
  1. 2024. “The Power of the Example. When Aristotle Read the Hippocratic On the Nature of the Child…” in Aristotle Reads Hippocrates, ed. H. Bartoš and Linka, Studies in Ancient Medicine 59, Brill, Leiden / Boston: 249-275.
  2. 2024. “A Life without a Soul: Questioning the Vitality of Stones in Greco-Roman Antiquity” AKAN – Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption 34: 115-139.
  3. 2023. “Eukrasia and Enkrateia. Greco-Roman Theories of Blending and the Struggle for Virtue” Early Science and Medicine3-5: 270-294.
  4. 2023. «Οι ιπποκρατικοί συγγραφείς και ο Αριστοτέλης για την πέψη και την έλξη της τροφής κατά τη θρέψη» in Φιλοσοφία και Ιατρική στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα. Μέθοδοι και Προβλήματα, ed. S. Kouloumentas and S. Stavrianeas, Crete University Press, Heraklion: 199-229.
  5. 2023. “Aristotle on the Lung and the Bellows-Lungs Analogy” in Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity, ed. M. Gerolemou and Kazantzidis, CUP, Cambridge: 181-202.
  6. 2022. On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1-6. With Translation, Introduction and Interpretation, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mind, Springer, Cham, 258 pp. + xvi. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99965-0.
  7. 2021. “Aristotle on the Limits of Inquisitive Enterprise. The Case of kompsos in On Respiration and Beyond” Rhetoric and Science 1: 50-78. [with K. Stefou]
  8. 2021. “Aristotle on the Role of Heat in Plant Life” in Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism, ed. Korobili and R. Lo Presti, Topics in Ancient Philosophy 9, De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston: 153-169.
  9. 2021. “Plato’s Charmides on Philosophy as Holistic Medical Practice” in Holism in Ancient Medicine and its Reception, ed. Thumiger, Studies in Ancient Medicine 53, Brill, Leiden / Boston: 201-219. [with K. Stefou]
  10. 2018. “What do People Call Death? Aristotle’s Scientific Approach to a Natural Phenomenon” in Oeconomia Corporis. The Body’s Normal and Pathological Constitution at the Intersection of Philosophy and Medicine, ed. Beneduce and D. Vincenti, Collana Mefisto supplement 7: 21-29.
  11. 2017. „Ernährung, Leben und Gesundheit des beseelten Körpers“ in Die Seele ist ein Oktopus. Antike Vorstellungen vom belebten Körper, ed. U. Kornmeier, Exzellenzcluster TOPOI, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum Ingolstadt, Berlin / Ingolstadt: 72-79.
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