A New Book on Græco-Roman Magic Reviewed
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 The title of Radcliffe Edmond’s new book on magic in antiquity […]
Tag Archives: astrology
A medieval astrological Latinate autobiography published
A new book is reviewed (in German) here; thirteenth-century astrologues are perhaps outside the scope of ancient esotericism, but a look at the editorial team of this volume will raise […]
A New French Translation of a ‘Bardesanite’ Syriac Book
Bardaisan of Edessa is not the best known ancient thinker, probably because his works circulated in Syriac, unlike the Greek provenance of most better-known early Christian writing, but he is […]
A New Book Relevant for (Very) Ancient Astrology
The ancient Akkadian cultures, following the lead of the Sumerians, regarded the heavenly bodies as gods, and observed them assiduaously, accidentally inventing mathematised astronomy in the process. But they also […]
conference: ‘Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity’
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 […]
New book: The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science
This looks like a must-consult for future work involving astrology in the ancient world. David Brown. The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science. With contributions by : Jonathon Ben-Dov, Harry Falk, […]
Daglish on Mastrocinque, the mysteries of Mithras
Attilio Mastrocinque’s work is nothing if not distinctive. His From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism is one of those books that comes at the old problems from a very different perspective. […]
