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 […]
Tag Archives: alchemy
Conference on Cosmic Ascent in Theory and Practice: Call for Papers
A conference in June of this year at Trinity College, Dublin on all aspects of cosmic ascent narratives. Papers are very welcome from scholars working on any aspect of this […]
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 […]
Two PhD positions in Bologna within the ERC project AlchemEast
For anyone interested in alchemy in the (broadly) ancient world, why not apply to do a PhD under the rubric of the project “Alchemy in the Making: From ancient Babylonia […]
New book – Nicolaïdis, ed. Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
In 2018, this new book of essays on the history of Greek alchemy was published. The subject is difficult and the study of it is changing a lot these days. […]
New book: The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus
An up-to-date study of the ancient Hermetica in their Egyptian context with attention to Egyptian, Greek, and Gnostic sources alike – a sort of sequel to Mahé’s Hermès en Haute-Égypte – […]
Gnosis volume 3.1: Hermetism
Courtesy of April DeConick: the newest issue of Gnosis: Journal for Gnostic Studies is guest-curated by Christian Bull, and features a collection of new papers on Hermetism. (It doesn’t get […]
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