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‘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?.