207 Episodes

  1. Seventh-Century History for Students of Western Esotericism

    Published: 13/05/2025
  2. Introducing the Qur’an Part III: Qur’ānic Texts vs. the Qur’ān

    Published: 02/05/2025
  3. Introducing the Qur’ān, Part II: Ambiguity and Esoteric Themes

    Published: 18/04/2025
  4. Introducing the Qur’ān, Part I: Revelation, Text, and History

    Published: 14/03/2025
  5. Fred Donner on the History of Early Islām

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

    Published: 21/01/2025
  7. Introducing Islām

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 14/05/2024

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