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The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
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The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind Hardcover - 1987

by Garth Fowden


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The sage, scientist and sorcerer Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human according to some, who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of a whole library of books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, astrology, theology and philosophy. Starting from the complex fusions and tensions that moulded Graeco-Egyptian culture, and in particular Hermetism, in the centuries after Alexander, Dr Fowden goes on to argue that the technical and philosophical Hermetica, apparently so different, might be seen as aspects of a single 'way of Hermes' that led the initiate from knowledge of the World through knowledge of the Self to knowledge of God. The focus and conclusion of the book is an assault on the problem of the social milieu of Hermetism by looking at the mythological facade of the texts themselves and deploying the numerous allusions to be found in other sources of the period.

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Egypt, we read in the Hermetic treatise called Asclepius, is 'the image of heaven...the temple of the whole world'.

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  • Title The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
  • Author Garth Fowden
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date February 27, 1987
  • ISBN 9780521325837 / 0521325838
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.71 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 1.80 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Hermes, Egypt - Religion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86006151
  • Dewey Decimal Code 299.31
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United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. A Historical Approach to the Pagan Mind. Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of a whole library of books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, astrology, theology, and philosophy. Until the early 17th century, few doubted the attribution. Even when unmasked, Hermes remained a byword for the arcane. Historians of ancient philosophy have puzzled much over the origins of his mystical teachings; but this is the first investigation of the Hermetic milieu by a social historian. First Edition. Cambridge University Press, London 1986. xviii + 244pp hb dw pict white dw, gilt black cloth, light shelf wear, book near fine
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