Upcoming Webinar Series on Late Platonism(s)
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 […]
Tag Archives: Plotinus
book review: Strozynski on Mazur, The Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus’s mysticism
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 […]
Online Conference on Plotinus and the Gnostics, 14-15 June
This one has many of the big names in this field, including the NSEA’s very own Dr Dylan Burns. This should be an essential conference for those interested in the […]
Highly-anticipated publication of Mazur’s The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism
Zeke Mazur’s University of Chicago PhD thesis (2010) argued for a Sethian Gnostic background to much of the ‘participative metaphysics’ found in Plotinus’ discussions of ascent to and union with […]
New translations of Plotinus from Parmenides Publishing
Parmenides Publishing is about to release two more in its series of translations of Plotinus’ Enneads, in their series ‘Introducing the Enneads of Plotinus.’ The series offers state-of-the-art, original translations […]
A New Study of Plotinus Reviewed
John Dillon has reviewed (very positively) the recent Plotinian study by J.-F. Pradeau. Of special interest might be Chapter 8 on ‘The One: First, Ineffable, Ungraspable’, which approaches Plotinus’ fascinatingly […]
ancient esotericism at the 2019 ESSWE in Amsterdam
Korshi Dosoo (Würzburg) has written up a terrific post detailing the papers concerned with antiquity at the 7th meeting of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, which […]
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