Phillip Sidney Horky is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in the IHUM Program. His most recent projects include a book on the influence of Pythagorean philosophy on the later dialogues of Plato tentatively entitled The City-State Commensurate: Plato and Pythagorean Political Philosophy. In this monograph, Horky investigates shifts in Plato's metaphysics, mathematics, and politics and argues that these occur as responses to the philosophical and political practice of Pythagorean city-states in Magna Graecia. He is also working on articles that deal with the political communities of the Samnites and Picenes in Italy and the nature and extent of Persian political ideology throughout the Mediterranean and Near East in the 5th and 4th Centuries BCE. His most recent publication, "The Imprint of the Soul: Psychosomatic Affection in Plato, Gorgias, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets," appeared in Mouseion (Series III, Vol. 6 [2006]).
Work AddressIntroduction to the Humanities Program
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Stanford University
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Research InterestsAncient Philosophy and Political Theory, Classical Greek and Italian History, Comparative Religious Traditions, Ancient Mathematics.
Courses Fall 2007: Visions of Mortality Winter-Spring 2008: Inventing the Classics
