One-Day Conference on Roman Magic
May be of interest to anyone in the UK in March: “We are delighted to advertise the full programme for this one-day day conference on Roman Magic, which will be […]
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new book: Demons in Late Antiquity – Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres
…Now appearing from De Gruyter is a new anthology of papers on demons and demonology: Demons in Late Antiquity: Their Perception and Transformation in Different Literary Genres. Edited by Eva […]
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 […]
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 […]
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