“Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity” (2014)

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Sul sito del Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte è stato pubblicato il preprint di Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity [TOPOI – Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences Vol. II / Preprint 454] curato da Klaus Geus e Mark Geller. Il file è liberamente disponibile in formato PDF.
I contenuti:
Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity –  Some Thoughts — Mark Geller / Klaus Geus

Secret of Extispicy Revealed  — Netanel Anor

Scenes with Two Bes Figures from Nimrud and the Second Step of Bes Toward Globalisation — Adrienn Orosz

Near Eastern origins of Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy  —  Matteo Martelli / Maddalena Rumor

Traum und Raum in den Onesikritika des Artemidoros von Daldis — Gregor Weber

On the Use and Abuse of Philosophy for Life: John Chrysostom’s Paradoxical View of Knowledge  — Jan R. Stenger

Esoterisches Wissen im Platonismus und in der christlichen Gnosis — Christoph Markschies

Priesterliches Kultwissen in den philensischen Graffiti des 4. und 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.  — Jan Moje

Ein syrischer Hermes? Anmerkungen zu esoterischen Traditionen im syrischen Medizinbuch — Stefanie Rudolf

Self-Knowledge, Illumination and Natural Magic: Some Notes on Pico della Mirandola’s Esotericism and Its Ancient Sources — Adrian Pirtea