Macrobius and the Commentary on Scipio’s Dream
Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
January 18, 202449m 9s
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Show Notes
We explore the rich seam of late-antique esoteric lore that is Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. We discuss who Macrobius was, what he wrote, what he wrote about, and introduce who read him later on. He emerges as a crucial transmitter of astrologised, arithmologically-informed Platonism to the Latin west in the middle ages.