new book: Das Paradies ist ein Hörsaal für die Seelen
2018 also saw a new volume of (German) papers on schools as institutions of higher learning, looking at a variety of ancient materials but focusing largely on late antiquity: »Das […]
Tag Archives: ancient philosophy
conference: ‘Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity’
The following announcement is courtesy of the ‘philosophie-antique’ mailing list. Cudworth himself was hardly ancient (he lived and wrote in the 17th century), but he and other ‘Cambridge Platonists’ were […]
Burns on Bibliotheca Chaldaica 5, 6
A review article I have written about two relatively recent (pub. 2016) volumes of papers about oracles, Platonism, and esotericism in antiquity has just been published online, in Aries 19:1 […]
Lamberton on Baltzly, Finamore, and Miles, Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s ‘Republic’. Volume I
Robert Lamberton (of Homer the Theologian fame) has published a very review of the new Cambridge UP translation of the first half of Proclus’s Commentary on the Republic. Great review […]
Doctoral position at University of Copenhagen – Platonism and Neoplatonism
…I can say for myself that the Univeristy of Copenhagen can be a rather nice place to work. Courtesy of Prof. Leo Catana, via the ISNS mailing list: PhD scholarships […]
new book: Bibliotheca Chaldaica / Band 7: Hierarchie und Ritual Zur philosophischen Spiritualität in der Spätantike
Fresh off the presses is the newest installment of the Bibliotheca Chaldaica series over at Winter Verlag: Hierarchie und Ritual: Zur philosophischen Spiritualität in der Spätantike. Edited by Chiara Tommasi, […]
Dillon on Banner, Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus
Courtesy of BMCR: Nicholas Banner, Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix, 299. ISBN 9781107154629. £75.00. Reviewed by John Dillon, Trinity […]
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