Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

203 Episodes

1. Fred Donner on the History of Early Islām

   Published: 07/02/2025
2. Matthew Melvin-Koushki on Islam, ‘the West’, and Western Esotericism

   Published: 21/01/2025
3. Introducing Islām

   Published: 03/01/2025
4. Paul Pasquesi on the Book of the Holy Hierotheos

   Published: 25/12/2024
5. The Pseudo-Dionysios, the Esoteric, and (Christian) Mysticism

   Published: 22/12/2024
6. Naming Divine Nothingness: Introducing the Pseudo-Dionysios

   Published: 18/12/2024
7. One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis

   Published: 22/10/2024
8. Contested Esotericisms at the End of Antiquity: Simplicius, Philoponus, and Olympiodorus

   Published: 16/10/2024
9. The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria

   Published: 18/09/2024
10. All from Nothing: Sara Rappe on Damascius

    Published: 11/09/2024
11. Hagia Sophia and the Problem of ‘Esoteric Architecture’

    Published: 28/08/2024
12. Kevin van Bladel on the Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Fate of the Athenian Academy

    Published: 30/07/2024
13. Edward Watts on the Age of Justinian and the Closing of the Athenian Academy

    Published: 24/07/2024
14. Danielle Layne on Proclus’ Religious Life and Thought

    Published: 29/05/2024
15. Graeme Miles on Proclus the Commentator

    Published: 22/05/2024
16. The Esoteric Proclus, Part II: Esoteric Exegesis and the Occult Ontology of Language

    Published: 14/05/2024
17. The Esoteric Proclus, Part I: The Life and Thought of an Esoteric Sage

    Published: 24/04/2024
18. Dylan Burns on Proclus the Successor

    Published: 29/03/2024
19. Hierocles of Alexandria and the Pythagorean Golden Verses

    Published: 07/03/2024
20. The Great God Pan Lives: Introducing the Athenian Academy

    Published: 28/02/2024