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 […]
Tag Archives: Late Antiquity
Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction
Since the ’90s, the standard English translation of the Corpus Hermeticum has been Copenhaver’s Hermetica. It remains a very useful tool, but one way in which it is inferior to […]
God’s Library and Variant Readings
Brent Nongbri’s work will be familiar to many followers of this website, principally his terrific book Before Religion, a wonderful critique of the usage of the category ‘religion’ in the […]
Two positions in Coptic magic at Würzburg
Two Five-year Positions: Study of Coptic Magic (doctoral and post-doctoral) As part of the new Excellent Ideas programme, the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is pleased to announce two vacancies within the Department […]
New book: Timotin, La prière dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon à Proclus
Andrei Timotin’s latest has just been published – a comprehensive treatment of prayer in the Platonic Tradition. His book on demonology in Platonism is the definitive treatment on the subject, […]
New Book: Origenes der Christ und Origenes der Platoniker
The question of whether the massively important early Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria was one and the same person as the Origen mentioned by the later Platonists as Plotinus’s colleague, […]
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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