Nigidius Figulus’ Natural Cosmology and Philosophy of Language
(2024)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2024). Nigidius Figulus’ Natural Cosmology and Philosophy of Language. In K. Volk (Ed.), Nigidius Figulus: Roman Polymath (82-97). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004690820_007
Outputs (34)
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.401.0079This 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
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/10.1163/20512996-12340342At 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/10.4324/9780429201684This 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/10.1017/9781108935777.003It 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?.
On Law and Justice Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum (2020)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S., & Johnson, M. R. (2020). On Law and Justice Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum. In D. Wolfsdorf (Ed.), Early Greek ethics (455-490). Oxford University Press
Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretes): A Lost Defense of Democracy (2020)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2020). Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretes): A Lost Defense of Democracy. In D. Wolfsdorf (Ed.), Early Greek ethics (262-292). Oxford University Press
Approaches to the Pythagorean Acusmata in the Early Academy (2020)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2020). Approaches to the Pythagorean Acusmata in the Early Academy. In P. Kalligas, C. Balla, E. Baziotopoulou-Valavani, & V. Karasmanis (Eds.), Plato's Academy: Its Workings and its History (167-187). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108554664.011
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
‘Cosmic Spiritualism among the Pythagoreans, Stoics, Jews, and Early Christians.’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2019). ‘Cosmic Spiritualism among the Pythagoreans, Stoics, Jews, and Early Christians.’. In P. Horky (Ed.), Cosmos in the Ancient World (270-294). Cambridge University Press
Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019)
Book
Horky, P. S. (Ed.). (2019). Cosmos in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108529082How did the ancient Greeks and Romans conceptualise order? This book answers that question by analysing the formative concept of kosmos ('order', 'arrangement', 'ornament') in ancient literature, philosophy, science, art, and religion. This concept e... Read More about Cosmos in the Ancient World.
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), 221-262The 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-2016-0045Thanks 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.
Empedocles Democraticus: Hellenistic Biography at the Intersection of Philosophy and Politics (2016)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2016). Empedocles Democraticus: Hellenistic Biography at the Intersection of Philosophy and Politics. In M. Bonazzi, & S. Schorn (Eds.), Bios philosophos. Philosophy in ancient Greek biography (37-71). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.phr-eb.5.113196
Flying Scholars and the Rise of Flatulence: the Scientific Fantasy of Aristophanes' Clouds (2015)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2015). Flying Scholars and the Rise of Flatulence: the Scientific Fantasy of Aristophanes' Clouds
Review of Gerson, L. From Plato to Platonism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014) (2015)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2015). Review of Gerson, L. From Plato to Platonism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014). Journal of the History of Philosophy, 53(3), 542-543
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
Review of Graham, Daniel W. The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics. Two Volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). (2013)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2013). Review of Graham, Daniel W. The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics. Two Volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). American Journal of Philology, 134, 149-155
Review of Schofield, Malcolm (ed.). Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC: New Directions for Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2013). (2013)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2013). Review of Schofield, Malcolm (ed.). Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC: New Directions for Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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/s0009838813000189In 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..
Plato and Pythagoreanism (2013)
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Horky, P. S. (2013). Plato and Pythagoreanism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199898220.001.0001Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the 19th century have been more skeptical. In Plato and Pythagoreanism, Phillip Sidney Horky argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "... Read More about Plato and Pythagoreanism.
Review of Brisson, Luc and Segonds, Alain Philippe. Jamblique, Vie de Pythagore. 2e tirage revu et corrigé. First Edition Published 1996 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2011). (2012)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2012). Review of Brisson, Luc and Segonds, Alain Philippe. Jamblique, Vie de Pythagore. 2e tirage revu et corrigé. First Edition Published 1996 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2011)
On the Phylogenetics of Wisdom: A Response to Alexis Pinchard, Les langues de sagesse dans la Grèce et l'Inde anciennes. (2011)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2011). On the Phylogenetics of Wisdom: A Response to Alexis Pinchard, Les langues de sagesse dans la Grèce et l'Inde anciennes. Antiquorum Philosophia, 5, 149-163
Review of Frede, D. and Reis, B. (eds.). Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009). (2011)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2011). Review of Frede, D. and Reis, B. (eds.). Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009). The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 131, 263-264. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426911000851
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.2011.30.1.119This 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..
Review of Nichols, Mary P. Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). (2010)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2010). Review of Nichols, Mary P. Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Persian Cosmos and Greek Philosophy: Plato's Associates and the Zoroastrian Magoi. (2009)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2009). Persian Cosmos and Greek Philosophy: Plato's Associates and the Zoroastrian Magoi. Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, 37, 47-103
Review of Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor. Words & Ideas: The Roots of Plato's Philosophy (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales). (2008)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2008). Review of Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor. Words & Ideas: The Roots of Plato's Philosophy (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales). Bryn Mawr Classical Review,
The Imprint of the Soul: Psychosomatic Affection in Plato, Gorgias, and the "Orphic" Gold Tablets. (2006)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2006). The Imprint of the Soul: Psychosomatic Affection in Plato, Gorgias, and the "Orphic" Gold Tablets. Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, 6(3), 371-386