A new book on otherworld journeys in antiquity
Whenever a new book on our favourite subject (Otherworldly journeys) appears, it is worth noting. John C. Stephens’ new book has ‘Medieval’ in its title, but it actually has more […]
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A new edition of Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12
Yoav Meyrav. Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12. A Critical Hebrew-Arabic Edition of the Surviving Textual Evidence, with an Introduction, Preliminary Studies, and a Commentary. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, Volume: 25.Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. This […]
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 […]
BMCR review of Nongbri, God’s Library
BMCR has posted a lovely review of Brent Nongbri’s fantastic 2018 monograph, God’s Library, copied below. As for me, I couldn’t recommend the book more. For Nongbri’s wonderful blog on […]
In memoriam: Kurt Rudolph (1929-2020)
Another lion in the study of Gnosticism has left us. Rudolph’s majesterial synthesis Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism, was the first book I ever read on the subject. […]
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 […]
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