Good conversation, Chester. We're at an especially pregnant point in the dialog; quite fitting in the platonic sense. Now would be a good time to consider...
This is good, Chester. You wrote: "Am I suggesting that we all are continually walking about in a somnambulistic cloud? Yes; yes I am." Or, as a Platonist,...
Okay, that's better in terms of my understanding how you got from self knowing to no knowing. Flip the thinking such that self knowing is genus with knowing...
Chester  Back in 1982 Granada Publishing (Paladin) released a book by Tom Chetwynd titled "A Dictionary of Symbols". Chetwynd writes from an essentially...
Dear Chester, I'm impressed by your candor. You are not the only person here for whom Plotinus is of personal and spiritual--not only "academic"-- importance....
Hello Chester, Might I just pipe up here with a word for the Primary Imagination, as Coleridge called it, as THE tool by which we grasp reality? The Romantic ...
Hi Merrily and Chester, Yes indeed, Blake, Shelley, Dickinson, Whitman, Yeats, V. Woolf, Rilke.... While philosophy struggles, poets plumb! Best, Bob ... ...
Salve, Call for papers for Journal of Greek, Roman and Persian Studies Papers and Articles submission Guidelines Mithras Readers: An Academic and Religious...
Here's a synchronistic experience that seemed worth commenting on: I'm interested in concepts and terms from Greco-Roman psychology that haven't made it into...
John, I hope your experience convinces you to read Pierre Hadot's other books. Hadot's work has transformed my understanding of ancient philosophy, especially...
Hi Bruce, ... No convincing necessary. Incidentally, also along the lines of synchronicity, my web search yesterday landed me on your excellent Marcus...
Many thanks for you kind comments, John. I've had the pleasure of translating half-a-dozen or so of Hadot's works, and am currently at work on a revision of...
... That is very good news!! One of the most valuable things about Hadot's books, and Michael Chase's masterful translations of them into English, is that they...
... "Buffoonery and bloody struggles; torpor and agitation; the slavery of every day!" (p.42, The Inner Citadel) Nicely put indeed, Michael, very nice. Why...
A relatively inexpensive book on Neoplatonism has recently been released. Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity by Algis Uzdavinys ISBN 1597310867 ...
My first post. I am 63 years old and live in rural B.C., Canada. I am reading the Enneads for the first time now. I ordered this book, also. I found Algis...
Welcome James. Are you reading the original or translation; if translation, whose (MacKenna, Armstrong)? And what's your plan of approach? If starting at...
Thank you for your greeting. I did get MacKenna first, but then I know I would be better off with Armstrong, whom I purchased. I know a little Greek. I took a...
... Welcome to the group - nice to see others in the Pacific Northwest with this interest. If I might suggest a couple of other books, though of course there...
Sounds like you've got in well in hand, James. Happy exploring, David In a message dated 4/14/2010 5:04:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jamesbergh@......
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.03.30 ... Giancarlo Movia (ed.), Alessandro di Afrodisia e Pseudo-Alessandro, Commentario alla "Metafisica" di Aristotele....
Apropos the posting on the new translation of the complete Alexander commentary on the Meta., I am curious if anyone has had occasion much to deal with the...
... commentary on the Meta., I am curious if anyone has had occasion much to deal with the last five books, the Pseudo- part. Large subject, I know, and I am...
... Now that is most interesting indeed, that autoen in fr 29b, which I hadn't noticed in my diggings - thanks very much for that one! Speusippus keeps coming...
Below are details of a new essay (5500 words) just completed for anyone interested. WEIGHING AND MEASURING THE GODS Linking Vitruvian Man with Apollo, Osiris,...
Hello Less, Your essay sounds very interesting. I have read a previous paper of yours on Atlantis which was very interesting too. Can you tell me where and how...
Thanks for asking the "where" question. I'm curious too. David In a message dated 4/19/2010 2:07:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ath98xyz@... writes: ...
Thanks to all who responded. (Hope this email works, there was a glitch in sending the original.) I should also have said that I was looking to have the...
In a message dated 4/20/2010 1:20:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, neoplatonist2000@... writes: P.S. If the opportunity arises to send WMG to those who...
