Phillip Horky, 2016–2017 | National Humanities Center

Phillip Sidney Horky (NHC Fellow, 2016–17)

Project Title

Pythagorean Philosophy: 250 BCE to 200 CE

Durham University

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2016–17

Phillip Sidney Horky made substantial progress on his book Pythagorean Philosophy, 250 BCE to 200 CE: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (commissioned by Cambridge University Press), as well as a monograph Prelude to the Categories. He also completed some work on Pythagoreanism after Pythagoreanism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He contributed the introduction and a chapter on "Cosmic Spiritualism among the Pythagoreans, Stoics, Jews, and Early Christians" for, and finished editing Cosmos in the Ancient Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He also cowrote "On Law and Justice Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum" with Monte Ransome Johnson for Early Greek Ethics, edited by D. Wolfsdorf (Oxford University Press, 2018).