Below you find a notice regarding a forthcoming volume on foreknowledge and divinatory techniques in late antiquity and Byzantium: Savoirs prédictifs et techniques divinatoires de l’ Antiquité tardive à Byzance, edited […]
A one-day conference on the fascinating subject of coërcive magical practices in the ancient world has been announced: June 17, Biblioteca Umanistica, Sala Comparetti, Piazza Brunelleschi, 4 – 50121 Firenze […]
On 25-27 June 2019, Durham University will host the conference ‘Ancient Revelation: Divination, Prophecy and Epiphany.’ The speakers will focus on Greek and Christian literature, mainly produced in the Roman […]
The following announcement is courtesy of the ‘philosophie-antique’ mailing list. Cudworth himself was hardly ancient (he lived and wrote in the 17th century), but he and other ‘Cambridge Platonists’ were […]
BMCR has just posed a review by Tzvi Langermann of the fascinating volume Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis, Religion, Science. Episteme in Bewegung: Beiträge zu […]
Those interested in ancient magic may wish to make their way to London on 17-18 January 2019. The University of London Senate House is hosting a two-day workshop on Cognitive […]
Brent Nongbri’s work will be familiar to many followers of this website, principally his terrific book Before Religion, a wonderful critique of the usage of the category ‘religion’ in the […]
