A New Book on Græco-Roman Magic Reviewed
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 The title of Radcliffe Edmond’s new book on magic in antiquity […]
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Online Egyptological Bibliography: [Temporary] Free Access
Lovers of things ancient-Egyptian may wish to check out the University of Oxford’s Online Egyptological Bibliography, which is being made open-access during the Covid-19 crisis.They catalogue basically everything which is […]
Andrei Timotin on Platonic and Platonist Prayer in Antiquity: Review
Andrei Timotin, who keeps producing cool stuff on ancient Platonism, including some great contributions on the theory of δαίμονες, has released a volume on philosophic ideas of prayer in the […]
A medieval astrological Latinate autobiography published
A new book is reviewed (in German) here; thirteenth-century astrologues are perhaps outside the scope of ancient esotericism, but a look at the editorial team of this volume will raise […]
A new book on Roman material culture for magic
The study of the material culture of magic is sort of the new frontier, as people have worked over the literary remains of antique magical traditions with a pretty fine-toothed […]
New Book On the Historical Reality behind Plato’s Atlantis Reviewed
Plato’s thought is in the very DNA of western esotericism. And then there’s the story of Atlantis, a really strange myth even for Plato, and one with its own, rather […]
Conference: Faith – Heresy – Magic
This conference looks superb, and, as it is scheduled for September, it might even go ahead! You will definitely need to know German for this one. Faith – Heresy – […]
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