Members of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Dr Phillip Horky

Member of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History

Member of the Department of Philosophy

Areas of Doctoral Supervision

Ancient Philosophy, especially the Presocratics, Plato, and the Early Academy, and Intellectual History in the ancient Near East and Greece.

Current PhD Student

Nicolò Benzi: Philosophy in Verse: Early Greek Poetry and the Expression of Philosophical Thought

Biography

Phillip Sidney Horky (PhD Classics, University of Southern California) is Lecturer in Classics. His research focuses on ancient philosophy, especially in its literary, historical, and intellectual contexts. In addition to recent articles on wisdom in Plato's philosophy, ancient Persia and the Early Academy, mathematics and metaphysics in the fragments of Xenocrates, and Hellenistic ethics in ancient Italy, he has just completed a monograph, entitled Plato and Pythagoreanism, on the importance of mathematical Pythagoreanism for the development of Plato's philosophy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013). He is also working on a new monograph, tentatively entitled How We Read Plato: Critical Responses to Platonic Questions, on ancient and modern exegetical approaches to key philosophical issues that arise out of Plato's dialogues. Other current and future research projects are concerned with cosmology in ancient Iran and Greece, the philosophical history of ancient Italy, and predication among the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. Publications can be found on his Academia.edu web page.

Before coming to Durham, Dr. Horky taught at Stanford University and at Claremont McKenna College. For the academic year 2010-11, he was a Residential Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies.

Dr. Horky also runs workofmemory, a blog with occasional thoughts on ancient philosophy, classics, and intellectual history. From 2012-15, Dr. Horky is a Member of the Council of the Hellenic Society, and he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Hellenic Studies.

For the academic year 2012-13, Dr. Horky is Director of the Postgraduate Taught MA Programmes in the Department of Classics and Ancient History.

Research Interests

Ancient Philosophy
Intellectual History
Greece and the Near East
Greek Literature
Magna Grecia

Publications

Books: authored

Horky, Phillip Sidney. (2013). Plato and Pythagoreanism. Oxford University Press.

Books: reviews

Horky, Phillip Sidney. (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.
Horky, Phillip Sidney. (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). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.09.23
Horky, Phillip Sidney. (2011). Review of Frede, D. and Reis, B. (eds.). Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009). Journal of Hellenic Studies 131: 263-264.
Horky, Phillip Sidney. (2010). Review of Nichols, Mary P. Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Classical Bulletin 86(1): 156-158.
Horky, Phillip Sidney. (2008). Review of Herrmann, Fritz-Gregor. Words & Ideas: The Roots of Plato's Philosophy (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.08.14.

Journal papers: academic

Horky, Phillip Sidney. (Forthcoming) (2013). Theophrastus on Platonic and "Pythagorean" Imitation. Classical Quarterly
Horky, Phillip Sidney. (2011). Herennius Pontius: the Construction of a Samnite Philosopher. Classical Antiquity 30(1): 119-147.
Horky, Phillip Sidney (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.
Horky, Phillip Sidney. (2009). Persian Cosmos and Greek Philosophy: Plato's Associates and the Zoroastrian Magoi. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 37: 47-103.
Horky, Phillip Sidney. (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.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Archaeology

Heba Abd El Gawad h.h.abd-el-gawad@durham.ac.uk (the self-presentation of Ptolemy II Philadelphus: media manipulation and political advertising during the Ptolemaic period)
Saud Al-Ghamdi s.a.al-ghamdi@durham.ac.uk (Neolithic settlement in the south-west of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Waleed Alsadeqi waleed.alsadeqi@durham.ac.uk (Arabian archaeology)
Arthur Anderson arthur.anderson@durham.ac.uk
George Azzopardi george.azzopardi@durham.ac.uk (Sacred spaces and religion in a Mediterranean island setting: the Maltese context (800 B.C.-A.D. 500))
Jennie Bradbury j.n.bradbury@durham.ac.uk (Landscapes of burial in Syria)
William Cooney william.cooney@durham.ac.uk (Libyan influences in Egypt during the 1st Millennium BC)
Maria Correas-Amador maria.correas-amador@durham.ac.uk ("'Down to earth' architecture: mud and organic structures in Ancient and Modern Egypt" aims to combine architectural, archaeological and ethnographic methods to understand the socio-cultural factors involved in the act of building and space distribution, and the reciprocal influence that domestic structures and community life exert over each other)
Rana Daroogheh-Nokhodcheri rana.daroogheh@durham.ac.uk (The influence of imperialism on the history of archaeology in Iran)
T A Fitton t.a.fitton@durham.ac.uk
Amr Gaber amr.gaber@durham.ac.uk (The function of the central hall in the Egyptian temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods)
Lyn Gatland lyn.gatland@durham.ac.uk (The wedjat-eye amulet in Ancient Egypt: morphological development and iconographic significance)
Michelle de Gruchy michelle.de-gruchy@durham.ac.uk (Prehistoric Routes of the Middle East)
Kristen Hopper k.a.hopper@durham.ac.uk (Long-term population trends and settlement in Southwest Iran)
Emmanouil Kalkanis emmanouil.kalkanis@durham.ac.uk (Classical art and its impact in eighteenth century musem collections)
R C Lange r.c.lange@durham.ac.uk
Francis Lankester f.d.lankester@durham.ac.uk (Rock art in Egypt's eastern desert)
Dan Lawrence dan.lawrence@durham.ac.uk
Mark Manuel m.j.manuel@durham.ac.uk (Hidden agendas: testing models of the social an political organisation of the Indus valley tradition)
Jenny Marshall j.l.marshall@durham.ac.uk (Missing links: demic diffusion and the development of agriculture in the central Iranian plateau)
Eric Olijdam eric.olijdam@durham.ac.uk (Dilmun during the 2nd millennium BC)
Louise Rayne louise.rayne@durham.ac.uk (landscape archaelogy , and especially the application of GIS, of the Neo-Assyrian empire)
D J Rohl d.j.rohl@durham.ac.uk
J E Shoebridge j.e.shoebridge@durham.ac.uk
Keir Strickland k.m.strickland@durham.ac.uk ("The Jungle Tide: Urban Collapse in Early Mediaeval Sri Lanka" aims to reconsider the existing explanations for the 11th century urban collapse of the city of Anuradhapura through explicit reference to the archaeological record as well as recent developments in the field of societal and urban collapse theory)
Veronica Tamorri veronica.tamorri@durham.ac.uk
Matthew Whincop m.r.whincop@durham.ac.uk (A reconsideration of the role of ceramics in reconstructions of the iron age northern Levant)

Classics and Ancient History

Peter Alpass p.j.alpass@durham.ac.uk (The religious life of Nabatea)
Mirko Canevaro mirko.canevaro@durham.ac.uk (Ancient Greek law, esp. the question of the authenticity of the documents inserted in the speeches of the Attic orators)
Dominic Dalglish d.b.dalglish@durham.ac.uk (Communal identity in the Near East during the Principate)
Lilah-Grace Fraser l.g.fraser@dur.ac.uk (Hesiod's Works and Days, and epic from a comparative perspective.)
Louise Hodgson l.l.hodgson@durham.ac.uk (Politics, politicians and political philosophy in the late Roman Republic and early Principate)
Youssri Hussein y.e.hussein@durham.ac.uk (Egyptian Cultural Identity in the Architectural Forms of the Egyptian Cities in the Roman Period)
David Lewis d.m.lewis@durham.ac.uk (Greek slavery in a comparative perspective)
Francesca Mazzilli francesca.mazzilli@durham.ac.uk (Beyond Religion: multidisciplinary approach to Roman Rural Sanctuaries in Syria and Lebanon)
Henrikus van Wijlick h.a.van-wijlick@durham.ac.uk (Foreign powers and the Roman Empire in periods of civil war, 44 BC - AD 284)
Mark Wildish mark.wildish@durham.ac.uk (Horapollo's Hieroglyphica (Graeco-Egyptian philosophical linguistics))

Physics

Jennifer Gray j.m.k.gray@durham.ac.uk

Theology and Religion

Ben Blackwell b.c.blackwell@durham.ac.uk
Maria Chrysovergi maria.chrysovergi@durham.ac.uk
Robert Cavin robertcavin@yahoo.com
Joan Crooks Joan.Crooks@durham.ac.uk
Andrew Cunningham a.d.cunningham@durham.ac.uk
Douglas Earl d.s.earl@durham.ac.uk
Judith Fain judith@fains.com
James Fowler j.t.fowler@durham.ac.uk
John Goodrich j.k.goodrich@durham.ac.uk
Nijay Gupta nijay.gupta@gmail.com
Ed Kaneen e.n.kaneen@durham.ac.uk
Brad Matthews b.j.matthews@durham.ac.uk
Sam Newington s.j.newington@durham.ac.uk
Dean Pinter d.l.pinter@durham.ac.uk
Tyson Putthoff t.l.putthoff@durham.ac.uk (Transformational Mysticism of Antique and Late Antique Jewish Thought)
William Telford w.r.telford@durham.ac.uk
Jennifer Wilkinson jennifer.wilkinson@durham.ac.uk