Egypt and its legacy loom large in the writings of the Platonists, especially Plutarch of Chaeronea; yet there is surprisingly little research where historians of philosophy engage Egyptological literature, and […]
Dis/embodiment and Im/materiality: Uncovering the Body, Gender and Sexuality in Philosophies of Late Antiquity – In Memoriam Marianne Saghy (1961‒2018) Audience: Open to the Public Speakers: Susanna Elm Grace Ledbetter […]
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford University) has just published a review at BMCR of a Christopher Faraone, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times. Empire and after (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania […]
Courtesy of John Finamore, via the ISNS mailing list: Postdoc Position The Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Hosted by the Institute for Medieval Research at […]
Courtesy of Prof. John Finamore, President of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies: I am pleased to announce the call for panels for the 17th annual ISNS […]
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 […]
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 […]
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