in memoriam: John D. Turner
Yesterday I received the very sad news of the passing of John D. Turner, who died on Saturday, 26 October 2019, at his home in Nebraska. He was among family […]
Tag Archives: Late Antiquity
New book: Dufault, Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity
…I am finishing a project of my own this summer and so have been a delinquent blogger, and will remain so for a while longer. However, I cannot let pass […]
Sinatti on Neoplatonic Demons and Angels
A new book on demons and angels in Neoplatonism has just been reviewed in BMCR by Cesare Sinatti – you can read the review here. The book is: Luc Brisson, […]
New book – Nicolaïdis, ed. Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
In 2018, this new book of essays on the history of Greek alchemy was published. The subject is difficult and the study of it is changing a lot these days. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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