new book: Das Paradies ist ein Hörsaal für die Seelen
2018 also saw a new volume of (German) papers on schools as institutions of higher learning, looking at a variety of ancient materials but focusing largely on late antiquity: »Das […]
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New book – Nicolaïdis, ed. Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
In 2018, this new book of essays on the history of Greek alchemy was published. The subject is difficult and the study of it is changing a lot these days. […]
conference: ‘Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity’
The following announcement is courtesy of the ‘philosophie-antique’ mailing list. Cudworth himself was hardly ancient (he lived and wrote in the 17th century), but he and other ‘Cambridge Platonists’ were […]
Burns on Bibliotheca Chaldaica 5, 6
A review article I have written about two relatively recent (pub. 2016) volumes of papers about oracles, Platonism, and esotericism in antiquity has just been published online, in Aries 19:1 […]
Lamberton on Baltzly, Finamore, and Miles, Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s ‘Republic’. Volume I
Robert Lamberton (of Homer the Theologian fame) has published a very review of the new Cambridge UP translation of the first half of Proclus’s Commentary on the Republic. Great review […]
Langermann on Renger and Stavru (eds.), Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World
BMCR has just posed a review by Tzvi Langermann of the fascinating volume Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis, Religion, Science. Episteme in Bewegung: Beiträge zu […]
Doctoral position at University of Copenhagen – Platonism and Neoplatonism
…I can say for myself that the Univeristy of Copenhagen can be a rather nice place to work. Courtesy of Prof. Leo Catana, via the ISNS mailing list: PhD scholarships […]
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