We are very pleased to share the programme of the forthcoming conference “Orfici, Pitagorici, Platonici. Nuove evidenze, antiche questioni”. The conference will be held at the University of Naples Federico […]
Anthi Chrysanthou, Defining orphism: the beliefs, the teletae and the writings. Trends in classics. supplementary volumes; volume 94. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xi, 415. ISBN 9783110678390 $137.99. Another […]
BMCR has posted a review by Mark Roblee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) of the recent volume of Eleni Pachoumi and Mark J. Edwards (eds.), Praying and contemplating in late antiquity: […]
Below you find a review from Bryn Mawr Classical Review on an important, recent edition (with introduction, text, commentary) of the Derveni Papyrus, as important a source for ancient Orphism […]
A new book which might interest lovers of ancient katabasis-narratives: Judith Fletcher, Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, […]
A review article I have written about two relatively recent (pub. 2016) volumes of papers about oracles, Platonism, and esotericism in antiquity has just been published online, in Aries 19:1 […]
Fresh off the presses is the newest installment of the Bibliotheca Chaldaica series over at Winter Verlag: Hierarchie und Ritual: Zur philosophischen Spiritualität in der Spätantike. Edited by Chiara Tommasi, […]
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