New book – Nicolaïdis, ed. Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity
In 2018, this new book of essays on the history of Greek alchemy was published. The subject is difficult and the study of it is changing a lot these days. […]
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Mystery Cults and Heresies in the Roman Empire: Polemics, Identities and Interactions
The latest issue of Religion in the Roman Empire has a nice bevy of articles on the polemical use of terminology about ‘mystery (cults)’ in connexion with heresiography. I copy […]
Dillon on Banner, Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus
Courtesy of BMCR: Nicholas Banner, Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix, 299. ISBN 9781107154629. £75.00. Reviewed by John Dillon, Trinity […]
Daglish on Mastrocinque, the mysteries of Mithras
Attilio Mastrocinque’s work is nothing if not distinctive. His From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism is one of those books that comes at the old problems from a very different perspective. […]
Call for Papers: Towards Feminist Reading of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Magic and Mystery Traditions
Courtesy of the ISNS mailing list: CALL FOR PAPERS Otherwise than the Binary: Towards Feminist Reading of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Magic and Mystery Traditions A now common critique of […]
R.I.P. Walter Burkert
In memoriam Walter Burkert, by Christoph Riedweg (in German). Burkert, who passed on a week ago today, was the author of countless invaluable studies on ancient Greek religion and culture, […]
Bremmer, Initiation into the Mysteries available via open access
A newly-published review in BMCR of the venerable Jan Bremmer‘s recent book Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World (De Gruyter, 2014) drew to my attention that the book […]
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