Oddcast Episodes Themed "Philo of Alexandria"

Coming Back for More, Part V: Sami Yli-Karjanmaa on Reincarnation in Philo and Josephus

We dive deeper into the evidence for Jewish reincarnation around the time of the Temple's destruction with Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, who has done the work. Philo of Alexandria and Josephus come under the metempsychotoscope.

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Michæl Griffin on the Virtues in Ancient Platonism: Painters, Dancers, and Godlike Sages

In the first of a short series of synoptic episodes looking at the esoteric in ancient Platonism as a whole, we approach the scale of virtues, the ladder by which the Platonist sage, following in the footsteps of Socrates, was to practice ascent to likeness with the gods, while still engaging in daily life.

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