My article from Méthexis 23 (2010), “The Second Intelligible Triad and the Intelligible-Intellective Gods”, is now available as a PDF on the Philosophy page. This article is the sequel to “The Intelligible Gods in the Platonic Theology of Proclus,” from Méthexis 21 (2008), also available on the Philosophy page, and will be followed by an article on the third intelligible triad and the intellective Gods.
Hekate devotional now in e-book form
March 28, 2011
Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate, with my essay “Flower of Fire: Hekate in the Chaldean Oracles,” is now available as an e-book from Smashwords.
Twitter, LiveJournal
February 9, 2011
I have a Twitter feed: @EPButler. Also, I have a LiveJournal where I occasionally post informal writings on philosophy and/or theology.
“Plato’s Gods and the Way of Ideas”
January 11, 2011
My article from Diotima 39 (2011), “Plato’s Gods and the Way of Ideas”, is now available on the Philosophy page.
My sincere gratitude to the Hellenic Society for Philosophical Studies, Athens, for the honor of seeing my work published in the pages of its journal.
Zeus devotional volume available
November 28, 2010
From Cave to Sky: A Devotional Anthology in Honor of Zeus is now available from Bibliotheca Alexandrina; it contains my essays “The Platonic Zeus” and “The Stoic Zeus”.
Reviews
June 29, 2010
Philosophy in Review Vol. 30, No. 3 has my review of Edward C. Halper’s One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Books Alpha-Delta. Also available there is an earlier review I did for PIR‘s print edition, of Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects, ed. David Jones.
UPDATE (11/16/2011): Complete PIR reviews to date here.
Updates to Encyclopedia
May 26, 2010
New research has enabled me to augment several entries in the Theological Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Gods of the Ancient Egyptians (Dedwen, Mnevis, Nephthys) as well as adding a new entry for Horit.
Lecture Text, Dalhousie University 3/11/10
March 16, 2010
I’ve added to the Philosophy page the text of the lecture I gave at the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. This file includes the essay itself, “The Henadic Structure of Providence in Proclus”, as well as the introduction I wrote for it and delivered at the talk itself.
My thanks again to the faculty and students of the Department of Classics at Dalhousie for their gracious invitation, warm hospitality and intellectual stimulation.
Online Chaldean Oracles Resource
January 25, 2010
It occurred to me that those reading my “Flower of Fire” essay from the Hekate devotional volume (available here) may find this site useful. It’s a synoptic presentation of the extant fragments of the Oracles in the English translations by Majercik and by Wescott together with the German translation by Michel Tardieu after Hans Lewy. There used to be a site with the Greek text of the fragments, but it seems to be defunct.
