Review: Massa on Marmodoro and Viltanioti (ed.), Divine Powers in Late Antiquity
Francesco Massa‘s review of a new book on divine powers in late antiquity has just been published at BMCR; you can read the review here. It looks like a terrific […]
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New book: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity. Edited by Harold Tarrant, University of Newcastle Australia, Danielle A. Layne, Gonzaga University, Dirk Baltzly, University of Tasmania and Monash University, […]
Falcon on Lakmann, Platonici minores
Andrea Falcon has published at BMCR a handy summary and review of the (relatively) recent monograph of Marie-Luise Lakmann, Platonici minores: 1. Jh.v.Chr. – 2. Jh.n.Chr. Prosopographie. Fragmente und Testimonien […]
New Book: Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
This new volume of papers looks terrific, and includes a number of studies about Gnosticism as well as ancient wisdom traditions more generally. The volume is a Festschrift for Prof. […]
BMCR review of Renz (ed.), Self-Knowledge: A History
Ursula Renz (ed.), Self-Knowledge: A History. Oxford philosophical concepts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii, 329. ISBN 9780190226428. $35.00 (pb). A book which should definitely be on the […]
new books in Neoplatonism, spring 2017
Several juicy titles in Neoplatonic Studies are popping up for 2017 already. One is a promising-looking set of studies on Byzantine Perspectives on Neoplatonism, which includes a number of papers […]
New Book Series: Ancient Philosophy and Religion
From the series’ website at Brill: Edited by George Boys-Stones and George van Kooten In the post-Enlightenment world, philosophy and religion have come to occupy different, even opposed, domains. But […]
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