Platonic Summer Seminar in Lanckorona (Poland), 5-11 July 2021
Courtesy of the ISNS mailing list – while the website for the seminar is in Polish, the titles of the papers to be delivered at the seminar appear to be […]
Tag Archives: ancient philosophy
new book: Alexandria. Hub of the Hellenistic World
A large collection of what appear to be lovely papers on ancient Alexandria, and its relationship to ancient Judaism and Christianity, has now been published. For more, see the book’s […]
BMCR: King on Anagnostou-Laoutides and Parry, eds., Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy
Here you find a review by Daniel King at BMCR of a new volume: Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides, and Ken Parry, eds., Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy. Texts and studies in Eastern […]
A new commentary on Philo’s On the Contemplative Life
Brill’s Philo series marches on with a new trans and comm on one of the Alexandrian’s greatest (and most esoteric) works, wherein he describes a group of Jewish-Platonist sages doing […]
Two new books on providence and fate: Burns, Did God Care?; Brouwer and Vermicati (eds.), Fate, Providence and Free Will
The end of summer has brought us not one but two new titles dealing with providence, fate, and free will in Roman philosophical and religious literature of the first centuries […]
job opening: assistant for Late Antique and Arabic Philosophy at LMU München
From Peter Adamson, via the ISNS mailing list: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is one of the largest and most esteemed institutions of higher learning in Germany, offering a wide range of academic […]
new book: Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles
I’m excited to see that Nicola Spanu‘s new book on the great Neoplatonist Proclus ‘the Successor’ and theurgy will be published in August 2020, by Routledge. Surely one that will […]
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