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Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination (2024)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2024). Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2877, Article 012085. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2877/1/012085

When did chaos come to be opposed to order? This paper considers the earliest references in the Western world to the concepts of “chaos” (Xάος) and “order” (κόσμος), understood as cosmological concepts; these terms are first attested in the epic Theo... Read More about Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination.

Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age (2023)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2023). Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age. In M. Garani, D. Konstan, & G. Reydams-Schils (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy (3-26). Oxford University Press

Aristotle's Intermediates and Xenocrates' Mathematicals (2022)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2022). Aristotle's Intermediates and Xenocrates' Mathematicals. https://doi.org/10.3917/rpha.401.0079

This paper investigates the identity and function of τὰ μεταξύ in Aristotle and the Early Academy by focussing primarily on Aristotle’s criticisms of Xenocrates of Chalcedon, the third scholarch of Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s direct competitor. I... Read More about Aristotle's Intermediates and Xenocrates' Mathematicals.

‘Our Common Breath: “Conspiration” from the Stoics to the Christian Church Fathers’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2021). ‘Our Common Breath: “Conspiration” from the Stoics to the Christian Church Fathers’. In C. Saunders, J. MacNaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine Classical to Contemporary (55-68). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_3

This essay tracks a brief history of the concept of ‘co-breathing’ or ‘conspiration’ (συμπνοία), from its initial conception in Stoic cosmology in the third century BCE to its appropriation in Christian thought at the end of the second century CE. Th... Read More about ‘Our Common Breath: “Conspiration” from the Stoics to the Christian Church Fathers’.

Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic (2021)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2021). Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 38(3), 399-419. https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340342

At the beginning of Republic 2 (358e–359b), Plato has Glaucon ascribe a social contract theory to Thrasymachus and ‘countless others’. This paper takes Glaucon’s description to refer both within the text to Thrasymachus’ views, and outside the text t... Read More about Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic.

Gramsci and Ancient Philosophy: Prelude to a Study (2021)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2021). Gramsci and Ancient Philosophy: Prelude to a Study. In E. Zucchetti, & A. Cimino (Eds.), Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World (86-100). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201684

This chapter investigates the precise ways in which Antonio Gramsci engaged with ancient philosophy. A brief examination of the longest discussion in the Prison Notebooks of any ancient philosopher or text, Plato's Republic (Q8§22), raises many quest... Read More about Gramsci and Ancient Philosophy: Prelude to a Study.

Archytas: Author and Authenticator of Pythagoreanism (2021)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2021). Archytas: Author and Authenticator of Pythagoreanism. In C. Macris, T. Dorandi, & L. Brisson (Eds.), Pythagoras Redivivus: Studies on the Texts Attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Academia

Pythagorean Immortality of the Soul? (2021)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2021). Pythagorean Immortality of the Soul?. In A. Long (Ed.), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy and Theology: Life, Divinity and Identity (41-65). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935777.003

It is a commonplace among scholars that the early Pythagoreans posited an immortal soul. The earliest source to associate immortality of the soul to the Pythagoreans unequivocally, Dicaearchus of Messana, stipulates that they held that (a) the soul i... Read More about Pythagorean Immortality of the Soul?.

When did Kosmos become the Kosmos? (2019)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2019). When did Kosmos become the Kosmos?. In P. Horky (Ed.), Cosmos in the Ancient World (22-41). Cambridge University Press

Introduction (2019)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2019). Introduction. In P. Horky (Ed.), Cosmos in the Ancient World (1-21). Cambridge University Press

Hellenistic Pythagorean Epistemology (2018)
Journal Article
De Cesaris, G., & Horky, P. S. (2018). Hellenistic Pythagorean Epistemology. Lexicon philosophicum, 2018(Special issue : Hellenistic theories of knowledge), 221-262

The paper offers a running commentary on ps-Archytas’ On Intellect and Sense Perception, with the aim to provide a clear description of Hellenistic/post-Hellenistic Pythagorean epistemology. Through an analysis of the process of knowledge and of the... Read More about Hellenistic Pythagorean Epistemology.

Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy (2017)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2017). Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy. In H. Tarrant, F. Renaud, ‎. D. Baltzly, & D. Layne (Eds.), Brill's companion to the reception of Plato in antiquity (29-45). Brill Academic Publishers

The Spectrum of Animal Rationality in Plutarch (2016)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2017). The Spectrum of Animal Rationality in Plutarch. Apeiron, 50(1), 103-133. https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2016-0045

Thanks to the work of Stephen Newmyer, Plutarch’s importance for modern philosophical debates concerning animal rationality and rights has been brought to the forefront. But Newmyer’s important scholarship overlooks Plutarch’s commitment to a range o... Read More about The Spectrum of Animal Rationality in Plutarch.