Another New Book on Ancient Magic Reviewed!
New publications on magic in antique societies are coming thick and fast at the moment (or at least thick and fast for such a generally-overlooked field of study). David Frankfurter […]
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New Book on Ancient Magic Reviewed
There is a review by Adam Parker of the following new book — which is more of a collection of discrete essays by a single author: Lindsay Watson, Magic in […]
A New Book for Lovers of Astronomy/Astrology
This might be of interest to the hardcore enthusiasts of all things astral and Hellenistic: Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts Series: Brill’s Companions to Classical Studies Editors: Alan […]
New Book Scrutinising Ancient Voces Magicæ Reviewed
Our subscribers may know of the CENOB database — that’s Corpus des énoncés des noms barbares — an attempt to put together something like a definitive list of every unintelligible […]
CfP for Conference on Mediæval Faith, Heresy, and Magic
CALL FOR PAPERS for the joint session of the study group “Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages” (AGSFM) and study group “Christian Archaeology” (AGCA) at the 10th German Archaeology Congress […]
Conference: Magic in Late Antiquity. Objects, Texts and Contexts Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, March 1-3, 2020
Organised by Avigail Manekin-Bamberger, Gideon Bohak, and Yakir Paz, this looks like a good one! Check out the schedule, which we are giving in full here as there’s no obvious […]
A New Study of Plotinus Reviewed
John Dillon has reviewed (very positively) the recent Plotinian study by J.-F. Pradeau. Of special interest might be Chapter 8 on ‘The One: First, Ineffable, Ungraspable’, which approaches Plotinus’ fascinatingly […]
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