A conference on sensory and emotional approaches to Roman magic
There is a call for papers out for a one-day conference with the promising title Mind, Body, Magic: Sensory And Emotional Approaches To Magic In The Roman World, organised by […]
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ancient esotericism at the 2019 ESSWE in Amsterdam
Korshi Dosoo (Würzburg) has written up a terrific post detailing the papers concerned with antiquity at the 7th meeting of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, which […]
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 […]
Call for papers: Magic and Medicine in the Ancient World (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 18-19 Sept. 2019)
A call for papers has just gone out for a conference on magic and medicine in antiquity to be held in Spain in September. With its broad temporal (looking back […]
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 […]
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, […]
What is Coptic magic?
‘The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt is a five-year research project (2018-2023) based at the Chair of Egyptology of the Julius Maximilian University […]
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