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 […]
Conference: Faith – Heresy – Magic
This conference looks superb, and, as it is scheduled for September, it might even go ahead! You will definitely need to know German for this one. Faith – Heresy – […]
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 […]
