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 […]
Category Archives: Books
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 […]
call for submissions, new series – Gorgias Coptic Studies
New Series: GORGIAS COPTIC STUDIES Gorgias Press is launching a new series on Coptic Christianity. The series consists of monographs, collected volumes, and texts and translations of Coptic documents from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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