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Exploring the forgotten and rejected story of Western thought

Episode Date
The Esoteric Proclus, Part I: The Life and Thought of an Esoteric Sage
Apr 24, 2024
Dylan Burns on Proclus the Successor
Mar 29, 2024
Hierocles of Alexandria and the Pythagorean Golden Verses
Mar 07, 2024
The Great God Pan Lives: Introducing the Athenian Academy
Feb 28, 2024
Ↄ. Martiana on Martianus Capella and the Marriage of Philology and Mercury
Jan 24, 2024
Macrobius and the Commentary on Scipio’s Dream
Jan 18, 2024
Augustine of Hippo: Saint of the Exoteric
Nov 29, 2023
The Manichæan Catholic: Augustine of Hippo
Nov 23, 2023
Stephen A. Cooper on Marius Victorinus and Latinate Christian Platonism
Nov 15, 2023
Gretchen Reydams-Schils on Calcidius and the Timæus
Oct 17, 2023
Plato Latinus
Oct 11, 2023
Jay Bregman on Synesius of Cyrene
Sep 26, 2023
Noble Lies and Philosophic Silence: Hypatia, Synesius, and the New Esotericism in the Fourth Century
Sep 20, 2023
Hypatia of Alexandria: The Life and Death of a Philosopher and her City
Sep 13, 2023
‘And When Rome Falls, Falls the World’: The Fall of Rome and Western Esotericism
Aug 29, 2023
‘Visibly a Goddess’: Heidi Marx on Sosipatra of Pergamum
Aug 02, 2023
Frederico Fidler on Sallustius’ On the Gods and the World
Jul 25, 2023
Strategies of the Esoteric in the Hellenism of the Emperor Julian: Exclusion and Pluralism in a Late-Antique Polytheism
Jul 19, 2023
Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project
May 23, 2023
Jeremy Swist on the Emperor Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor
May 23, 2023
Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius’ Kephalaia Gnōstika: Philosophy, Scripture, and Apophatic Mysticism
May 16, 2023
Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius of Pontus, the ‘Gnostic Trilogy’, and the Origenist Controversy
May 09, 2023
Theology, Politics, and Radiant Darkness: Michæl Motia on Gregory of Nyssa
Apr 25, 2023
Father Sergey Trostyanskiy on the Cappadocian Fathers, Part II
Apr 18, 2023
Father Sergey Trostyanskiy on the Cappadocian Fathers, Part I
Apr 12, 2023
Claire Hall on Firmicus Maternus
Apr 05, 2023
Kocku von Stuckrad on Monotheist Astrologies in (Late) Antiquity
Mar 30, 2023
Metals, Temples, and Living Statues: Shannon Grimes on Zosimus’ Egyptian Context
Mar 15, 2023
Bink Hallum on the Extended Zosimus
Mar 01, 2023
Matteo Martelli Introduces Zosimus of Panopolis
Jan 25, 2023
Recognising the Real in the Forgery: The Pseudo-Clementine Literature
Jan 18, 2023
Charles Häberl on the Mandæans
Dec 21, 2022
Paul Pasquesi on Christian Asceticism in the Late-Antique Syriac World
Nov 23, 2022
Korshi Dosoo on Early Christian Magic
Nov 02, 2022
Prolegomena to Christian Magic
Oct 12, 2022
The Testament of Solomon and the Solomonic Tradition, Part II
Oct 05, 2022
The Testament of Solomon and the Solomonic Tradition, Part I
Sep 27, 2022
Exploring the Sefer ha-Razim
Sep 21, 2022
Curses! Sarah Veale on Roman ‘Curse-Tablets’
Sep 07, 2022
Daniel James Waller on the Jewish Incantation-Bowls
Aug 24, 2022
Gideon Bohak on Late-Antique Jewish Magic
Aug 17, 2022
Thinking through Monotheism, Henotheism, Polytheism, and Dualism in Late Antiquity
Aug 03, 2022
Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part II: The Rise of Christianity and the Invention and Eclipse of ‘Paganism’
Jun 29, 2022
Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part I: Geopolitics, Empire, and Rabbinic Judaism
Jun 22, 2022
Run the Numbers: The Theology of Arithmetic
Jun 15, 2022
Brian Alt on Sacred Materials, Divine Names, and Subtle Physiology in Iamblichean Theurgy
May 11, 2022
Gregory Shaw on the Phenomenology of Iamblichean Theurgy
Apr 20, 2022
John Finamore on Iamblichean Theurgy in Theory and Practice
Apr 13, 2022
The Great Theurgy Debate: Porphyry’s Letter to Anebo, Iamblichus’ Response, and the Question(s) of Ritual
Apr 07, 2022
The Esoteric Iamblichus
Mar 16, 2022
The ‘Greater Kinds’, Souls, and Kosmos: Iamblichus’ Philosophy, Part II
Mar 09, 2022
Esoteric Hermeneutics, Divine Hierarchy, and the Ineffable: The Philosophy of Iamblichus, Part I
Feb 16, 2022
Introducing Iamblichus of Chalcis
Feb 09, 2022
A Word to Conjure With: On ‘Theurgy’ in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Jan 26, 2022
Astral Accretions, Fate, and the Resurrection-Body: Other Subtle Bodies of Antiquity
Jan 20, 2022
Soul-Flight, Noetic Bodies, and Pneumatic Vehicles: Toward a History of the Platonist Subtle Body
Jan 12, 2022
Methodologies for Studying the Subtle Body
Dec 29, 2021
Nilüfer Akçay on Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs
Dec 08, 2021
Porphyry and the Barbarians: Ethnicity, Religious Practice, and Esoteric Interpretation
Oct 27, 2021
Dorian Greenbaum on Porphyry and Astrology
Oct 20, 2021
Porphyry’s Gods: The Metaphysics and Physics of Divinity
Oct 13, 2021
‘Poet, Philosopher, Hierophant’: Introducing Porphyry of Tyre
Sep 29, 2021
Charles M. Stang on the Divine Double in Late Antiquity
Sep 08, 2021
Jason BeDuhn on Mani and Manichæism
Aug 25, 2021
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III on the ‘Mithrasliturgie’
Jul 27, 2021
Mithras and the Stars: Astral Elements in the Cult of Mithras
Jun 30, 2021
Mysteries of the Rock-Born God: The Roman Cult of Mithras
Jun 09, 2021
Jean-Marc Narbonne on Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics
May 04, 2021
Dylan Burns on Sethian Gnosticism
Apr 21, 2021
The Esoteric Plotinus, Part II: Unsaying the Real
Apr 13, 2021
Plotinus on Astrology with Marilynn Lawrence
Apr 07, 2021
The Esoteric Plotinus, Part I: Philosophic Silence and Esoteric Reading
Mar 31, 2021
Plotinus the Magician? Ritual Practice and Power in Platonism
Mar 17, 2021
Mateusz Stróżyński on Spiritual Practices in Plotinus
Mar 03, 2021
We are the One: Plotinus’ Participatory Metaphysics
Feb 24, 2021
‘The Philosopher of our Time’: Introducing Plotinus
Jan 27, 2021
Matthew Neujahr on the Sibylline Oracles
Jan 20, 2021
Christian Bull on the Way of Hermes in Antiquity
Dec 09, 2020
Anna van den Kerchove on the Hermetic Way in Antiquity
Nov 25, 2020
M. David Litwa on Deification in the Hermetica
Nov 18, 2020
Silent Encounters: The Esoteric in the Ancient Hermetica
Nov 11, 2020
Other Hermetic Worlds: The Asclepius and Korê Kosmou
Oct 21, 2020
Wouter Hanegraaff on the Poimandres
Oct 14, 2020
Corpus Hermeticum I, the Poimandres
Oct 07, 2020
Professor Christian Wildberg on Emending the Corpus Hermeticum
Sep 30, 2020
Brian Copenhaver on the Hermetica
Sep 23, 2020
Thrice-Greatest Hermes
Sep 22, 2020
Total War: Polemical Esotericism in the Contra Celsum
Sep 02, 2020
The True Account: Celsus, Origen, and Ideological Esotericism in Late Antiquity
Aug 20, 2020
Aron Reppmann Introduces Origen of Alexandria
Jul 21, 2020
From Word to Silence: The Rise of the Apophatic in Late Antiquity
Jun 27, 2020
The Third Century and (the Long) Late Antiquity
Jun 22, 2020
Becoming Gods: Divinisation and Angelomorphic Transformation in Clement
Jun 12, 2020
Henny Fiskå Hägg on Clement’s Apophatic Writing
Jun 06, 2020
Lifting the Veil: Esoteric Reading in Clement’s Stromateis
Jun 06, 2020
Mystagogic Patchwork: Esoteric Writing in Clement’s Stromateis
May 30, 2020
The Orthodox Gnostic: Introducing Clement of Alexandria
May 01, 2020
The Astrology of Vettius Valens
Apr 15, 2020
Claudius Ptolemy and the Tetrabiblos
Mar 25, 2020
Numerical Mysteries: Nichomachus of Gerasa, Arithmology, and Second-Century Neopythagoreanism
Mar 18, 2020
Matteo Martelli on the Pseudo-Democritus
Mar 04, 2020
Introducing Alchemy with Lawrence Principe
Feb 26, 2020
Other Gospels and Alien Gods: Marcion of Sinope
Feb 16, 2020
Geoffrey Smith on Valentinus and Valentinianism
Jan 29, 2020
I Got Soul, And I’m Super Bad: Basilides of Alexandria
Jan 22, 2020
Warfaring Strangers: Prolegomena to Second-Century Christianity
Jan 17, 2020
Michael Williams on the Trouble with ‘Gnosticism’
Jan 01, 2020
Alone with the Alone: Numenius’ Metaphysics
Dec 24, 2019
Inter philosophos occultorum curiosior: Numenius of Apamea
Dec 11, 2019
Korshi Dosoo on the Papyri Græcæ Magicæ and Western Esotericism
Nov 28, 2019
The Chaldæan Oracles and Theurgy
Nov 27, 2019
The Chaldæan Oracles
Nov 22, 2019
I’m Not Sorry: The Apology of Apuleius
Nov 02, 2019
Ineffable Initiations and Golden Asses: Apuleius of Madauros and the Metamorphoses
Oct 28, 2019
Hypochondria and Epiphany: The Strange Case of Ælius Aristides
Oct 13, 2019
Daniel Harris-McCoy on the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus
Sep 24, 2019
Gil Renberg on Incubation
Sep 24, 2019
Plutarch’s Myths of Cosmic Ascent
Sep 11, 2019
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris
Aug 30, 2019
An Erudite Esotericist: Introducing Plutarch of Chæronea
Aug 09, 2019
Astrology, Politics, and Platonism in the Early Empire: The Case of Thrasyllus
Jul 31, 2019
Graeme Miles on Apollonius of Tyana
Jul 16, 2019
The Enigma of Early Christianity
Jun 09, 2019
Dylan Burns on the ‘Underworld of Platonism’
Apr 30, 2019
John Dillon on Middle Platonism
Apr 18, 2019
The Esoteric and the State in Ancient Rome, Part 2: The State and the Stars
Apr 14, 2019
The Esoteric and the State in Ancient Rome, Part 1: Late Republican Esotericism
Apr 04, 2019
Introducing Rome
Mar 29, 2019
Justin Rogers on Philo in Early Christianity
Mar 22, 2019
The Esoteric Philo
Mar 22, 2019
The First Western Esotericist: Philo of Alexandria
Mar 11, 2019
Naomi Janowitz on Jewish Magic and ‘The Jewish Magi’ in Antiquity
Feb 21, 2019
Frances Flannery on Jewish Dreams in Antiquity
Feb 06, 2019
Palaces of Heavenly Wisdom: The Hekhalot and Merkavah Traditions
Jan 16, 2019
Enoch, Apocalyptic, and Abrahamic Faith
Jan 02, 2019
Enoch and the Book of Watchers
Dec 26, 2018
John J. Collins on Apocalyptic
Dec 03, 2018
The Long Secret History of the Jews Part II: Second-Temple Judaism
Nov 14, 2018
Pythagoras Revived: An Anatomy of Neopythagoreanism
Nov 05, 2018
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Joel Kalvesmaki on ‘Pythagorean’ Number
Oct 22, 2018
After Pythagoras
Sep 28, 2018
Stoic Physics and Esoteric Metaphysics
Sep 15, 2018
Esoteric Hermeneutics in Stoicism
Aug 30, 2018
Christopher Gill on Stoicism
Aug 24, 2018
Chris Brennan on Hellenistic Astrology
Aug 19, 2018
Fate and Foreknowledge: Toward Hellenistic Astrology
Aug 13, 2018
Wheels Within Wheels: Toward Western Esoteric Cosmology
Aug 02, 2018
The Esoteric Aristotle, Part 2
Jul 17, 2018
The Esoteric Aristotle, Part I
Jul 11, 2018
Peter Adamson on Plato
Jul 04, 2018
Plato’s Parmenides and Metaphysics
Jun 26, 2018
Mystery and Immortality: Plato’s Phædo
Jun 03, 2018
Mystery and Initiation in Plato
May 21, 2018
Nowhere to Go But Up: Philosophic Ascent in Plato
May 08, 2018
Maya Alapin on Mathematical Structures in Plato’s Republic
Apr 18, 2018
Sun, Line, Cave: Plato’s Inner Republic
Apr 08, 2018
Introducing Plato’s Republic
Apr 02, 2018
Otherworlds, Inner Worlds, and Utopias
Mar 18, 2018
Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis
Mar 08, 2018
Plato’s Timæus
Mar 07, 2018
The Birth of the Symbol: Peter Struck on Ancient Greek Esoteric Hermeneutics
Mar 01, 2018
The Esoteric Plato
Feb 25, 2018
Introducing the Father of Western Esotericism: Plato
Feb 19, 2018
Miguel Herrero de Jauregui on Ancient ‘Orphism’
Feb 04, 2018
Severed Heads and Cosmic Eggs: Orpheus and Esotericism
Feb 04, 2018
Elementary: Empedocles and the Secret History of the Elements
Jan 23, 2018
All for One, and One for All: Parmenides of Elea
Jan 17, 2018
Riddle Me This: Heraclitus of Ephesus
Jan 05, 2018
Don’t Spill the Beans: Pythagorean Silence
Dec 27, 2017
The Enigma of Pythagoreanism
Dec 20, 2017
The Enigma of Pythagoras
Dec 10, 2017
For the Love of Wisdom: The Birth of Philosophy
Dec 02, 2017
Methodologies for the Study of Mysticism
Nov 23, 2017
From Mystery to ‘Mysticism’
Nov 16, 2017
Richard Seaford on the Mysteries
Nov 09, 2017
The Long Secret History of Judaism, Part I
Nov 01, 2017
Prayer to the Gods of Night: The Near-Eastern Roots of Astrology
Oct 25, 2017
Esoteric Orientalism Part II: The Greeks are Always Children?
Oct 18, 2017
Esoteric Orientalism Part I: Ancient Barbarian Sages
Oct 11, 2017
We’re Together In Dreams: Dreaming and Western Esotericism
Oct 04, 2017
Magicians, Ghosts, Amulets, and Spells: Daniel Ogden on Græco-Roman Magic
Sep 27, 2017
Methodologies for the Study of Magic
Sep 20, 2017
Richard Seaford on the Origins of the Soul
Sep 13, 2017
Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism
Sep 05, 2017
A Secret History of Secret History, Part II
Sep 05, 2017
A Secret History of Secret History, Part I
Sep 05, 2017
So What is Western Esotericism, Anyway?
Sep 05, 2017