Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
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Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

by Earl Fontainelle

Exploring the forgotten and rejected story of Western thought

100 episodes
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1
Gerasimos Merianos on East Roman Alchemy in Late Antiquity and Beyond, Part I
45:47 Mar 25, 2026
2
The Horoscope of Islām and The Alchemical Stone: Maria Papathanassiou on Stephanos of Alexandria, Part II
32:47 Mar 4, 2026
3
Philosophy and Occult Sciences at Constantinople: Maria Papathanassiou on Stephanos of Alexandria, Part I
41:51 Feb 25, 2026
4
Esoteric Orthodoxy in East Rome: Jonathan Greig on Maximus the Confessor
1:12:44 Dec 7, 2025
5
Introducing the Apocalypse of the Pseudo-Methodios, with Christopher Bonura
1:11:41 Oct 26, 2025
6
Jewish Apocalypse in the Seventh Century: Martha Himmelfarb on the Sefer Zerubbabel
47:47 Sep 27, 2025
7
Touraj Daryaee on Zoroastrianism in the Seventh Century and Beyond
43:20 Sep 13, 2025
8
Ahab Bdaiwi on the Rise of Shī‘ī Esotericism
29:09 Jul 25, 2025
9
Ahab Bdaiwi on ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, his Family, and the Origins of Shī‘ī Islam
38:32 Jul 18, 2025
10
Seventh-Century History for Students of Western Esotericism
55:31 May 13, 2025
11
Introducing the Qur’an Part III: Qur’ānic Texts vs. the Qur’ān
55:06 May 2, 2025
12
Introducing the Qur’ān, Part II: Ambiguity and Esoteric Themes
1:11:11 Apr 18, 2025
13
Introducing the Qur’ān, Part I: Revelation, Text, and History
57:03 Mar 14, 2025
14
Fred Donner on the History of Early Islām
53:35 Feb 7, 2025
15
Matthew Melvin-Koushki on Islam, ‘the West’, and Western Esotericism
1:04:29 Jan 21, 2025
16
Introducing Islām
1:13:03 Jan 3, 2025
17
Paul Pasquesi on the Book of the Holy Hierotheos
57:40 Dec 25, 2024
18
The Pseudo-Dionysios, the Esoteric, and (Christian) Mysticism
1:06:05 Dec 22, 2024
19
Naming Divine Nothingness: Introducing the Pseudo-Dionysios
1:09:18 Dec 18, 2024
20
One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis
1:22:25 Oct 22, 2024
21
Contested Esotericisms at the End of Antiquity: Simplicius, Philoponus, and Olympiodorus
1:00:17 Oct 16, 2024
22
The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria
42:34 Sep 18, 2024
23
All from Nothing: Sara Rappe on Damascius
51:00 Sep 11, 2024
24
Hagia Sophia and the Problem of ‘Esoteric Architecture’
1:04:02 Aug 28, 2024
25
Kevin van Bladel on the Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Fate of the Athenian Academy
54:46 Jul 30, 2024
26
Edward Watts on the Age of Justinian and the Closing of the Athenian Academy
1:09:36 Jul 24, 2024
27
Danielle Layne on Proclus’ Religious Life and Thought
51:40 May 29, 2024
28
Graeme Miles on Proclus the Commentator
43:23 May 22, 2024
29
The Esoteric Proclus, Part II: Esoteric Exegesis and the Occult Ontology of Language
59:22 May 14, 2024
30
The Esoteric Proclus, Part I: The Life and Thought of an Esoteric Sage
1:14:47 Apr 24, 2024
31
Dylan Burns on Proclus the Successor
52:14 Mar 29, 2024
32
Hierocles of Alexandria and the Pythagorean Golden Verses
43:54 Mar 7, 2024
33
The Great God Pan Lives: Introducing the Athenian Academy
1:00:44 Feb 28, 2024
34
Ↄ. Martiana on Martianus Capella and the Marriage of Philology and Mercury
55:37 Jan 24, 2024
35
Macrobius and the Commentary on Scipio’s Dream
49:09 Jan 18, 2024
36
Augustine of Hippo: Saint of the Exoteric
36:52 Nov 29, 2023
37
The Manichæan Catholic: Augustine of Hippo
47:17 Nov 23, 2023
38
Stephen A. Cooper on Marius Victorinus and Latinate Christian Platonism
1:10:53 Nov 15, 2023
39
Gretchen Reydams-Schils on Calcidius and the Timæus
57:48 Oct 17, 2023
40
Plato Latinus
29:41 Oct 11, 2023
41
Jay Bregman on Synesius of Cyrene
50:00 Sep 26, 2023
42
Noble Lies and Philosophic Silence: Hypatia, Synesius, and the New Esotericism in the Fourth Century
43:45 Sep 20, 2023
43
Hypatia of Alexandria: The Life and Death of a Philosopher and her City
38:00 Sep 13, 2023
44
‘And When Rome Falls, Falls the World’: The Fall of Rome and Western Esotericism
45:50 Aug 29, 2023
45
‘Visibly a Goddess’: Heidi Marx on Sosipatra of Pergamum
45:25 Aug 2, 2023
46
Frederico Fidler on Sallustius’ On the Gods and the World
1:00:16 Jul 25, 2023
47
Strategies of the Esoteric in the Hellenism of the Emperor Julian: Exclusion and Pluralism in a Late-Antique Polytheism
57:22 Jul 19, 2023
48
Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project
34:26 May 23, 2023
49
Jeremy Swist on the Emperor Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor
39:15 May 23, 2023
50
Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius’ Kephalaia Gnōstika: Philosophy, Scripture, and Apophatic Mysticism
37:22 May 16, 2023
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