A Home for Knowledge on Greek History, Religion, and Culture - Ancient/Modern and in Between. Reflections and commentary on Contemporary Polytheism as well. angelonasios.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://angelonasios.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">angelonasios.substack.com</a>
Hearth of Hellenism
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A Home for Knowledge on Greek History, Religion, and Culture - Ancient/Modern and in Between. Reflections and commentary on Contemporary Polytheism as well. angelonasios.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://angelonasios.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">angelonasios.substack.com</a>
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January 6, 2026
12 - Why White Nationalists Love to use Ancient Greece for Hate w/ Dr. Curtis Dozier
<p><strong>The White Pedestal</strong>: <strong>How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate</strong> by Curtis Dozier is a powerful exploration of how extremist movements weaponize the classical world. Dozier shows how white nationalist thinkers selectively reinterpret Plato, Sparta, Roman history, and the mythology of “Western civilization” to legitimize violence, exclusion, and racial hierarchy.</p><p>Curtis Dozier is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is the author of The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate and the director of the website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics (<a target="_blank" href="http://doingjusticetotheclassics.org/">doingjusticetotheclassics.org</a>) where he documents examples of appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate-groups.</p><p></p><p><strong>Purchase </strong><strong>The White Pedestal</strong></p><p>https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272734/the-white-pedestal/</p><p>https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300272731</p><p>https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-pedestal-curtis-dozier/1147628406</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Hearth of Hellenism at <a href="https://angelonasios.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">angelonasios.substack.com/subscribe</a>
July 19, 2025
11 - The Hieroglyphica - Hellenism between Horapollon and Today w/ Dr. Sasha Chaitow
<p>Hello listeners, today I have a fantastic interview with Dr. Sasha Chaitow from the amazing <a target="_blank" href="https://thyrathen.substack.com/">Thyrathen substack</a>. </p><p><strong>Sasha Chaitow, PhD,</strong> is a British-Greek scholar of the history of Western Esotericism with a background in Literature and Communication Studies. Her doctoral thesis (University of Essex, 2014) focused on the French visionary author Joséphin Péladan in relation to Symbolist art and literature in the French Occult Revival (Theion Publishing, 2022), and she has published her MA thesis (University of Exeter, 2008) as a monograph on the Renaissance alchemist Michael Maier and the initiatory content of his 1618 emblem book, Atalanta Fugiens (2020). She has published several peer reviewed articles on related topics, and has also led a parallel career as a medical editor for Elsevier.</p><p>A native speaker of Greek, Sasha has worked as an academic translator since 1999, in the Greek press industry as a columnist and reporter, and has published a monograph and several chapters in a Greek university textbook.</p><p>Her current research involves folk magical practices in Modern Greece and the history of their transmission, the entanglements of Greek Orthodox theology in relation to Hermetism and Neoplatonic theurgy, and the theology and symbolism of Orthodox icons.</p><p>She has taught extensively on the academic study of Western Esotericism, topics in Greek myth and culture, and their reception in Anglophone academic studies. She is also a visual artist and a trained iconographer and has exhibited internationally in 14 solo and several group exhibitions.</p><p></p><p>The Hieroglyphica is a captivating late antique gem that embodies the twilight of Mediterranean paganism and hieratic philosophy. Frustratingly elusive, this extraordinary text offers a thrilling glimpse into a struggle to safeguard knowledge amid clashing worldviews and the fervent religiocultural passions of its time. Echoing the harmonising tendency of late Neoplatonism, its entangled strands of Greek and Egyptian thought and language do not vie for supremacy, but merge in a battle for interpretation, reinvention, and survival. The journey of the Hieroglyphica is one of transmission and reception: we know more about this than about its creator, provenance, or intent. Its rediscovery and reinterpretation in the Renaissance renders it a touchstone for the development of Renaissance emblematics and alchemical iconography. However, until recently, its legacy was muddled by errors in dating, authorship, and interpretation, and its significance was diminished by biased commentary. The scholarship itself demands a bold reckoning, entangled as it is in ethnocentric and colonialist lenses that still cloud this artifact’s true significance. This new English translation directly from the original Greek opens a door for both curious readers and scholars alike, balancing rich context with a sharp, reliable rendering—sidestepping the pitfalls of past efforts. In this full length scholarly study, Sasha Chaitow has unearthed three groundbreaking insights that reshape our grasp of the Hieroglyphica: Compelling evidence points to its roots in oral tradition, likely penned by a student of Horapollon; a vivid blend of Alexandrian syncretism, Greek Neoplatonism, Hermetic currents; and traces of late antique alchemical hermeneutics woven between its lines. These revelations demand a fresh, urgent look at this remarkable manuscript.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.blackletter-press.com/product-page/horapollo-hieroglyphica"><strong>PURCHASE BOOK HERE</strong></a></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Hearth of Hellenism at <a href="https://angelonasios.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">angelonasios.substack.com/subscribe</a>
February 23, 2025
10 - The Orphic Hymns w/ Dr. Daniel Malamis
<p>In this episode, I interview <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ru.ac.za/classics/staff/">Daniel Malamis</a> of Rhodes University on his book<a target="_blank" href="https://brill.com/display/title/71251?language=en"> </a><a target="_blank" href="https://brill.com/display/title/71251?language=en"><strong>The Orphic Hymns Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation</strong></a><strong>. </strong>Daniel explores the Orphic Hymns, focusing on their poetic style, structure, and role in ancient religious rituals. Along with his extensive study, a critical Greek text is provided, and a new English translation. </p><p></p><p>Daniel Malamis was born in the UK and educated there and in Zimbabwe. He completed his undergraduate degree at Rhodes and, after several years in the UK, Greece and South Korea, returned to Rhodes as a lecturer in 2008. His research interests include Homeric epic, Greek lyric poets, Greek religion and religious poetry and ancient magic, with a current focus on the poetry of ancient mystery cults and the Orphic Hymns in particular.</p><p>From the book description </p><p>The Orphic Hymns, a collection of invocations to the complete Greek pantheon, have reached us without explicit information about the contexts of their composition and performance. Combining a new critical edition and translation of the hymns with an in-depth study of the poetic strategies they employ and the forms of Greek poetry they draw upon, this book explores what the hymns can tell us about themselves. Through the use of allusion and figures that look to the earliest Greek poetry, the hymns present themselves as a text to be heard and meditated upon in performance, and as Orpheus' summative revelation on the nature and unity of the divine realm.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Hearth of Hellenism at <a href="https://angelonasios.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">angelonasios.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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