Podcast Episodes Themed "Stephanos of Alexandria"

Episode 213: Philosophy and Occult Sciences at Constantinople: Maria Papathanassiou on Stephanos of Alexandria, Part I

We speak with Maria Papathanassiou about Stephanos of Alexandria: the last known Platonist/Aristotelean philosopher trained at Alexandria, a politically-connected courtier at Herakleios' Constantinople, a Christian, an astrologer, an alchemist, and more.

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Episode 196: One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis

We are delighted to speak with Anthony Kaldellis about ‘Byzantium’, fabled empire full of Greek-speaking Romans which never fell until the fifteenth century, and which plays an outsize role in the history of western esotericism. Come for the historiographical debates about the term ‘Byzantine’, stay for the ‘Byzantine’ court astrology.

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An Apollonian Man: Plato at the End of Antiquity in the Anonymous Prolegomena

As a coda to our discussion of the final Platonists of Alexandria, we look at the Anonymous Prolegomena to the Philosophy of Plato. This fascinating work, originating in or around the circle of Olympiodorus, has much to tell us about the esoteric hermeneutics of the whole philosophical tradition of Platonism. It also tells us about the henadic virgin birth of the great esoteric sage of antiquity, Plato himself.

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