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Pseudo-Archytas´ Protreptics? On Wisdom in its Context (2015)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2015). Pseudo-Archytas´ Protreptics? On Wisdom in its Context. In D. Nails, & H. Tarrant (Eds.), Second sailing : alternative perspectives on Plato (21-39). Societas Scientiarum Fennica

Theophrastus on Platonic and "Pythagorean" Imitation. (2013)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2013). Theophrastus on Platonic and "Pythagorean" Imitation. Classical Quarterly, 63(2), 686-712. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838813000189

In the twenty-fourth aporia of Theophrastus' Metaphysics, there appears an important, if ‘bafflingly elliptical’, ascription to Plato and the ‘Pythagoreans’ of a theory of reduction to the first principles via ‘imitation’ (μίμησις): Πλάτων δὲ καὶ οἱ... Read More about Theophrastus on Platonic and "Pythagorean" Imitation..

Herennius Pontius: the Construction of a Samnite Philosopher. (2011)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2011). Herennius Pontius: the Construction of a Samnite Philosopher. Classical Antiquity, 30(1), 119-147. https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2011.30.1.119

This article explores the historiographical traditions concerning Herennius Pontius, a Samnite wisdom-practitioner who is said by the Peripatetic Aristoxenus of Tarentum to have been an interlocutor of the philosophers Archytas of Tarentum and Plato... Read More about Herennius Pontius: the Construction of a Samnite Philosopher..