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 […]
Tag Archives: Late Antiquity
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 […]
New book: Langage des dieux, langage des démons, langage des hommes dans l’Antiquité
Here is a notice for what looks like a very exciting new volume on “language of the gods, of demons, and of humans in antiquity.” From its website at Brepols: […]
Call for Panels: International Society for Neoplatonic Studies 2018
Courtesy of John Finamore: I am pleased to announce the call for panels for the 16th annual ISNS conference, to be held in Los Angeles on June […]
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