The Egyptian Hermes : a historical approach to the late pagan mind /

The Egyptian Hermes : a historical approach to the late pagan mind /

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Main Author: Fowden, Garth (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993.

Series: Mythos.

Subjects:

Hermes, > Trismegistus.
Hermetism.
Paganism > History.
Egypt > Religion.

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Call Number: BF1591 .F75 1993

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Table of Contents:
  • Modes of Cultural Interaction
  • The durability of Egypt
  • The gods of Egypt
  • Hermes Trismegistus
  • The Hermetica
  • Translation and interpretation
  • Aretalogies of Isis and Asclepius
  • Manetho and Chaeremon
  • Books of Thoth and technical Hermetica
  • Instructions and philosophical Hermetica
  • The Way of Hermes
  • Magister omnium physicorum
  • Sympatheia
  • Magic
  • Occult properties and alchemy
  • Astrology
  • Religio mentis
  • The philosophical paideia
  • Gnosis
  • Towards a via universalis
  • Technique and philosophy: interactions
  • Zosimus of Panopolis
  • Pre-Iamblichan theurgy
  • Iamblichus of Apamea
  • Hermetism and theurgy
  • The role and understanding of ritual
  • Bitys
  • The Milieu of Hermetism
  • Hermetism in Egypt
  • The evidence of the Hermetica
  • First-century Alexandria
  • and beyond
  • Temples and priests
  • Upper Egypt
  • Late antique Alexandria
  • The milieu of Hermetism: a socio-intellectual description
  • Aegypti sacra deportata
  • Earliest testimonies to the name 'Hermes Trismegistus'.