Sinatti on Neoplatonic Demons and Angels
A new book on demons and angels in Neoplatonism has just been reviewed in BMCR by Cesare Sinatti – you can read the review here. The book is: Luc Brisson, […]
Category Archives: Books
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 […]
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. […]
New book: The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science
This looks like a must-consult for future work involving astrology in the ancient world. David Brown. The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science. With contributions by : Jonathon Ben-Dov, Harry Falk, […]
The Loebs are los
…Well, at least some of them are. A lot of older Loeb Classical Library volumes are out of copyright and may be downloaded for free. A collection of links to […]
New book: Wrestling with Archons: Gnosticism as a Critical Theory of Culture
Jonathan Cahana-Blum has been publishing for years at the intersection of ancient Gnosticism and modern Continental philosophy and social theory, a project that now sees publication in a new monograph, […]
Review: Simonetti on Erler and Stadler (ed.), Platonismus und spätägyptische religion
Egypt and its legacy loom large in the writings of the Platonists, especially Plutarch of Chaeronea; yet there is surprisingly little research where historians of philosophy engage Egyptological literature, and […]
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