Review of Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
This is a review from BMCR which slipped between the cracks in November, but is surely of interest to followers of this site. Stray, Christopher, C. B. R. Pelling and […]
WEBINARS: The Mysteries of Mithras in Caesarea:… (March 11)
Via AGADE: ========================== FRIENDS OF ASOR WEBINARS The Mysteries of Mithras in Caesarea: Exploring the Cult’s Rites and RemainsMarch 11, at 7:00 pm ESTJane DeRose Evans and Dr. Alexandra Ratzlaff. […]
Call for Papers: Astronomy and Astrology in Early Text Cultures
From Bernardo Ballesteros Petrella <bernardo.ballesteros@classics.ox.ac.uk>:============================= University of Oxford The Early Text Cultures research group at the University of Oxfordinvites contributions to its online seminar series for Trinity Term2021 (April 25th […]
Two New Books of Interest
A new collection on the great Emperor Julian (still called ‘the Apostate’ in the title, in a remarkable acceptance of Christian value-judgements) is out from Brill. A look at the […]
Encyclopædia Iranica Online Now Freely Accessible at Brill
The Encyclopædia Iranica is an invaluable resource for anything Iran- or Persia-related. For followers of this site, that includes Manichaeism, Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism, and of course Persian and Syriac literature, […]
Charles W. King, The ancient Roman afterlife: di manes, belief, and the cult of the dead
This book looks very interesting; not esoteric per se, but an interesting study of Roman beliefs about the dead, the divinity of the dead, their power to act upon the […]
Astrology in Ancient Egypt: Webinar
from Lucio Del Corso (Università di Cassino) Dear Colleagues, we are pleased to invite you to the webinar “Astra in Chartis. Astronomical and Astrological Papyri from Graeco-Roman Arsinoites”, organized in the frame […]
