The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind - Paperback
by Garth Fowden
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Availability:In StockContributor:Garth FowdenSeries:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen World MythologyPublish date:1993-06-21Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691024981ISBN-10:691024987UPC:9780691024981Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Antiquities & ArchaeologySize:9.42 x 6.48 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SC3B6PHWDJ
The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late 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 numerous books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, astrology, theology, and philosophy. Until the early seventeenth century, few doubted the attribution....
Series: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen World Mythology
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691024981ISBN-10:691024987UPC:9780691024981Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Antiquities & ArchaeologySize:9.42 x 6.48 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SC3B6PHWDJ
Garth Fowden is a research fellow at the Center for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, and the author of Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity.
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