This distilled from the LT-Antiquity list this morning, apologies for cross-posting: a link to a brochure of sale items of Bude, both Greek and Latin series. I...
Dear colleagues, As editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, it is my pleasure to announce the following prizes for recent scholarship in the...
Out of fairness, I thought I should point out, at about page 230 in Kingsley's book, as he begins to discuss the second part of the poem, that I may have...
The first of the Prometheus Trust's Series of 'Platonic Texts and Translations' is now available - John Dillon's /Iamblichi Chalcidensis, In Platonis Dialogos...
... That is great news, since my Brill copy has just about split open on the binding - at least it is getting used and a used a lot. You might be interested to...
Fields Bookstore on Polk in San Francisco also kept a nice selection of neo-Platonic works -- interestingly, in light of Kingley's work -- with some alchemical...
... Yes, indeed, and many a happy hour could and was spent there in pursuit of same. They are very much still in business, still in the same shop on...
I ran across this passage and thought others might find it of interest. It comes from the Preface of a book by theologian Hugo Rahner (older brother of the...
Hmmm, and someone reading Kingsley's Empedocles book just sent me an article on a recently built pagan Greek temple in Thessaloniki for Greek pagans. Maybe I...
Well, within academia, nothing beats Mithraism. After cutting through the bull, you can transcend the various malefic spheres of influence. ... From: Curt...
... I don't see this sort of thing as being what H. Rahner (a Jesuit priest, incidentally) was getting at. The goal is to integrate Hellenic ideals, concepts,...
If "our" culture is in need of a return to it's roots in Plato and Homer (not to mention Vergil and Seneca), well, those guys were Pagan, so our "roots" are...
I have to agree with Curt here. The early Christians (uniquely) were intolerant of each other and all others (whether gnostic or "heretical" others or what...
Having spent time as what is called a "spook", I was compelled to see similarity of patterns beween militant religious groups and early Christianities in...
... Give me that old time religion Give me that old time religion Give me that old time religion It's good enough for me. We will pray with Aphrodite, We will...
Dear Thomas, I don't have any desire to get into a slanging match, but as a Catholic Christian I must make some kind of response to this. You write: The early...
To save Edward Moore the trouble, may I politely suggest that, while my original post may have been of only marginal scholarly interest, the posting of Tom...
... Talking as a pagan autodidact whose pantheon has space for Jesus: laments for various gods were heard on a regular basis (take the famous 'Mysian cry') and...
I'm confused, are you just messing around, or is that really how much respect you have for the pagan Gods? I admit I haven't been paying much attention to...
yes indeed or :) carry the bull on your shoulders as he carried on his shoulders.... Regards, Nabarz *************************************************** ...
Avete: From what I understand the Athenian School Postulated the exsistence of Fourteen Classes Of Henads or Gods. As memory serves these stretched from...
Dear members, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Iván Elvira, and I'm finishing my studies in History in Granada (Spain), and I'm a member of the...
... In the absence of any supporting evidence from Greek mythology that I know of, I am not persuaded that the announcement of Pan's death implies the usual...
... understood, although Plutarch is also far from infallible (when touting his virtues to a classicist some decades back he responded with 'that gossip...
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