Religious Knowledge and Authoritative Texts in Judaic, Christian, Gnostic, Neoplatonist and Other Polytheistic Traditions (1st century BCE-2nd century CE) Whether as the starting point of an argument or as a […]
Courtesy of John Finamore: Prof. Finamore, together with Loredana Cardullo and Chiara Militello, is pleased to announce the call for panels for the 20th annual ISNS conference, to be held […]
The Project “Between Athens & Alexandria. Platonism, 3rd-7th c. CE” warmly invites you to its first online event: “The Friend, the Eccentric, and the […]
Reposted from BMCR, a review by NSEA’s own Nicholas Banner on a new volume on heavenly journeys and tours of the underworld: Seelenreise und Katabasis: Einblicke ins Jenseits in antiker […]
The first in what looks to be a very interesting series of online talks on aspects of late-antique Platonist and Platonistic cultural phenomena is coming up on 15 December, as […]
Re-posted from Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR): Alexander J. Mazur, The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, vol. 98. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 337. ISBN […]
John Finamore has shared the sad news of the passing of one of the greatest and most prolific scholars of later Platonism, H.-D. Saffrey. He writes: It is with great […]
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