ZODIAC: Ancient Astral Science in Transformation
The Freie Universität Berlin has launched the website for its project researching the formations of ancient zodiacal and mathematised cosmology in the near east and beyond, seeking ‘to develop a […]
Colloquium on Apuleius’ De mundo
George Boys-Stones and the University of Toronto are putting on a workshop on Apuleius’ translation of (Ps.)Aristotle’s On the World, a very important and under-researched document in the history of […]
ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Program 2022-23
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a centerfor advanced scholarly research and graduate education, which aims toencourage particularly the study of the economic, religious, politicaland […]
A new book on the ‘evil creator’ idea as a Christian innovation
Ancient esotericism-specialists may know M. David Litwa’s work from his Hermetica II volume or elsewhere. In a new OUP offering he addresses the problem of how the idea of an […]
Postdoc at Alchemies of Scent (Prague)
The project Alchemies of Scent, hosted at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has advertised an opening for a 5-year postdoc, copied below (original website here): […]
BMCR: Dosoo on Iaô sabaôth
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.07.35: Roxanne Sarrazin Bélanger, Alain Delattre, Daniel Demaiffe, Natasja De Winter, Alain Martin, Georges Raepsaet, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, Iaô sabaôth: pratiques magiques dans la cité des Tongres: une […]
R.I.P. Robert Rittner
Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, via AGADE (see original post here): July 26, 2021 The OI community mourns the loss of our dear friend and […]
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