Call for panels: ISNS 2020, Athens
After a month away from the website for writing and a little vacation, it’s nice to be back with a very happy announcement from the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies, […]
new book: Hermes Explains
Fresh off the presses is the twentieth-anniversary volume of the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. It is an introductory, apologetic (in […]
new book: The Gospel of Judas
There is no shortage of editions and translations of infamous The Gospel of Judas. (On Judas’s Gospel, see here.) Why another? Because it is a relatively newly-published text, having been […]
ancient esotericism at the 2019 ESSWE in Amsterdam
Korshi Dosoo (Würzburg) has written up a terrific post detailing the papers concerned with antiquity at the 7th meeting of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, which […]
International Conference: Secrets and Secrecy in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and Early Islam (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany, 26–28 July 2019)
Sadly, the call for papers for this one is long past, but the conference looks very interesting to lovers of ancient esotericism. No registration is necessary! A short description follows, […]
New book: Dufault, Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity
…I am finishing a project of my own this summer and so have been a delinquent blogger, and will remain so for a while longer. However, I cannot let pass […]
forthcoming book: Savoirs prédictifs et techniques divinatoires de l’ Antiquité tardive à Byzance
Below you find a notice regarding a forthcoming volume on foreknowledge and divinatory techniques in late antiquity and Byzantium: Savoirs prédictifs et techniques divinatoires de l’ Antiquité tardive à Byzance, edited […]
