BMCR: Banner on Männlein-Robert, Seelenreise und Katabasis
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 […]
Tag Archives: Plato
Platonic Summer Seminar in Lanckorona (Poland), 5-11 July 2021
Courtesy of the ISNS mailing list – while the website for the seminar is in Polish, the titles of the papers to be delivered at the seminar appear to be […]
Review of Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
This is a review from BMCR which slipped between the cracks in November, but is surely of interest to followers of this site. Stray, Christopher, C. B. R. Pelling and […]
New collection of Szlezák’s essays
Thomas A. Szlezák is the foremost living exponent of the so-called Tübingenschule of Platonic interpretation, arguing that Plato was an esotericist (with very specifically-defined parameters and ramifications for reading his […]
Andrei Timotin on Platonic and Platonist Prayer in Antiquity: Review
Andrei Timotin, who keeps producing cool stuff on ancient Platonism, including some great contributions on the theory of δαίμονες, has released a volume on philosophic ideas of prayer in the […]
New Book On the Historical Reality behind Plato’s Atlantis Reviewed
Plato’s thought is in the very DNA of western esotericism. And then there’s the story of Atlantis, a really strange myth even for Plato, and one with its own, rather […]
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