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 […]
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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 […]
Langermann on Renger and Stavru (eds.), Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World
BMCR has just posed a review by Tzvi Langermann of the fascinating volume Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis, Religion, Science. Episteme in Bewegung: Beiträge zu […]
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: The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science
This looks like a must-consult for future work involving astrology in the ancient world. David Brown. The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science. With contributions by : Jonathon Ben-Dov, Harry Falk, […]
The Loebs are los
…Well, at least some of them are. A lot of older Loeb Classical Library volumes are out of copyright and may be downloaded for free. A collection of links to […]
Mystery Cults and Heresies in the Roman Empire: Polemics, Identities and Interactions
The latest issue of Religion in the Roman Empire has a nice bevy of articles on the polemical use of terminology about ‘mystery (cults)’ in connexion with heresiography. I copy […]
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