Spanu, Proclus and the Chaldæan Oracles Reviewed
Nicola Spanu’s new book looks at Proclus’ use of the Chaldæan Oracles, a revelatory hexameter text of a Platonistic vein from the second century, in an attempt to determine what […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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