Phil's contribution to the project deals with the reception of Aristotle's writing among later ancient philosophers and scientists.
Phillip Horky is Professor in the Department of Classics & Ancient History at Durham University and Co-director of the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP). Prior to his arrival in Durham in 2011, he taught at Stanford University (2007-10) and held a fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University (2011-12). His teaching and research focus on the ancient philosophy, political theory, and intellectual history of Ancient Greece and Rome, with previously published work devoted to Plato, the Pythagoreans, the traditions of Platonism, later Pythagoreanism, ancient cosmology, notions of justice, the ancient theory of democracy, and the ancient theory of the mixed constitution.
Prof. Horky has published a monograph, Plato and Pythagoreanism (OUP 2013), an edited volume Cosmos in the Ancient World (CUP 2019), as well as a number of substantial articles. He has nearly completed a major source book, his second monograph, Pythagorean Philosophy, 250 BCE to 200 CE: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (CUP, 2024). This book, the first of its kind, aims to rehabilitate post-Classical Pythagorean philosophy by tracing the shape of its development, accounting for its transformation in the context of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic philosophy (including Platonism, Peripateticism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and the rise of Christianity), and making the later texts, previously obscure, accessible to a wider audience.
In addition to 'Aristoteles Pezographos', Prof. Horky has been awarded several distinguished fellowships, including the British Academy Mid-Career Award (2022-23), the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina (2016). He has also been a distinguished visitor at the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, University of Toronto (2016). He was a Member of the Council of the Hellenic Society (UK) from 2012-15, and a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute of Classical Studies in London from 2019-22. He is also a member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Prof. Horky is currently Secretary of the Classical Committee and a Trustee for the Gilbert Murray Trust and has previously worked with Advocating Classics Education.
Under the aegis of the 'Aristoteles Pezographos' project, Prof. Horky is pursuing research on the reception of Aristotle's writing style/s in later philosophical and scientific writing (from Theophrastus to Galen to John Philoponus) and working on a student-focussed Greek edition with commentary of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (selections from Books I and X. etc.).
