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Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

The Egyptian Hermes

by Garth Fowden

Garth Fowden's historical study situates the Hermetica within the cultural and religious life of Greco-Roman Egypt. He argues against treating the texts as purely Greek philosophy, showing their connections to Egyptian traditions and to practical as well as philosophical Hermetic literature. Focusing on how Hermetic teaching may have been transmitted and practiced, the book is an important scholarly work on the late antique pagan mind and the origins of Hermeticism.

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