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A radical exploration of the ancient origins of philosophical thought. Much of the evidence for the long history of philosophy never features in the modern academic curriculum. My books are available from major retailers, including Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and also direct from Smashwords. Not available from Amazon.

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Around Black Athena (1990), Seminar Two (Tim Cornell)

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This is an extract from my notes made at the second seminar in the series ('Representations of Carthage'), held on the 25th J...
Wednesday, 30 October 2019

The Esoteric Conception of Divinity in the Ancient World (full text)

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This article was first published in the Newsletter of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in December 2015. In October 2019 the web...
Tuesday, 29 October 2019

An Appetite for Knowledge

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I have argued elsewhere that ideas of Being, of the nature of reality, and the divine, were once approached  in terms of conjectures a...
Saturday, 28 September 2019

Pythagoreanism, the Divine, and the Nature of Eternity

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[I compiled this paper in December 2017 to provide background detail for a speculative discussion of ancient patterns of thought outsid...
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Thomas Yaeger
Thomas Yaeger studied Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages at both University College, London, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Yaeger specialized in the text corpus of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He is the author of five books: the first is 'The Sacred History of Being' (2015), the second is 'J.G. Frazer and the Platonic Theory of Being' (2016). His third and fourth books - 'Understanding Ancient Thought' (2017) and 'Man and the Divine' (2018), explore further patterns of thought in antiquity. His fifth book is Echoes of Eternity’ (2020). Yaeger tweets regularly on ancient history and philosophy, with the Twitter ID: @rotorvator. His books are available (in eBook format) from Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Blio, Walmart, Smashwords, and other retailers.
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