Burns on Bibliotheca Chaldaica 5, 6
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 […]
Tag Archives: Platonism
Lamberton on Baltzly, Finamore, and Miles, Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s ‘Republic’. Volume I
Robert Lamberton (of Homer the Theologian fame) has published a very review of the new Cambridge UP translation of the first half of Proclus’s Commentary on the Republic. Great review […]
Doctoral position at University of Copenhagen – Platonism and Neoplatonism
…I can say for myself that the Univeristy of Copenhagen can be a rather nice place to work. Courtesy of Prof. Leo Catana, via the ISNS mailing list: PhD scholarships […]
Review: Simonetti on Erler and Stadler (ed.), Platonismus und spätägyptische religion
Egypt and its legacy loom large in the writings of the Platonists, especially Plutarch of Chaeronea; yet there is surprisingly little research where historians of philosophy engage Egyptological literature, and […]
new book: Bibliotheca Chaldaica / Band 7: Hierarchie und Ritual Zur philosophischen Spiritualität in der Spätantike
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, […]
New Book: A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity
We live in the age of the handbook. Some of them are pretty useful, as this one promises to be. It’s something of a pity that only ‘Pagan’ and Christian […]
New book: Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge
The latest offering from SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions is about Socrates and Plato: Sarah Ahbel-Rappe‘s Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato. Readers of this […]
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