New Book: A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity
We live in the age of the handbook. Some of them are pretty useful, as this one promises to be. It’s something of a pity that only ‘Pagan’ and Christian […]
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Neoplatonic Demons and Angels
Looking forward to this one, Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, Volume: 20. Neoplatonic Demons and Angels. Edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O’Neill and Andrei Timotin. Leiden: Brill, […]
Two positions in Syriac and Arabic Christian digital philology at Venice
One of the positions is a doctoral position, the other a postdoc. They both will involve working for the new ERC-funded project Florilegia Syriaca. The Intercultural Dissemination of Greek Christian […]
New book: Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge
The latest offering from SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions is about Socrates and Plato: Sarah Ahbel-Rappe‘s Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato. Readers of this […]
New Book: Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus
I am very happy to draw attention to the forthcoming publication of Nicholas Banner’s Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). I was lucky enough […]
The Prometheus Trust – “Living philosophic traditions”
Call for Abstracts: The Prometheus Trust – 13th Annual conference: “Living philosophic traditions” June 29th – July 1st, 2018 – Mancetter, Warwickshire, UK What does it mean to live within […]
Forthcoming book: Plotinus, The Enneads
A brand-new translation of Plotinus’s Enneads (all of them!) is set to appear in February from Cambridge. The managing editor for the project is Prof. Lloyd Gerson; translators include George […]
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