The Way of Hermes: New Translations of the "Corpus Hermeticum" and the "Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius" - Softcover

Trismegistus, Hermes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715630938 ISBN 13: 9780715630938

Verlag: Bristol Classical Press, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

"The Corpus Hermeticum" is a collection of short philosphical treatises, a powerful fusion of Greek and Egyptian thought, written in Greek in Alexandria between the first and third centuries AD and rediscovered in the West in the fifteenth century when it was first translated into Latin by the great scholar and philosopher Marsilio Ficino. These writing were believed from antiquity up to the early seventeenth century to be the writings of Hermes Trismegistus, 'thrice-great Hermes', the name given by Greeks of the classical and Hellenistic periods to the Ibis-headed Egyption god Thoth. They were central to the spiritual work of Hermetic societies in late antique Alexandria, aiming to awake gnosis, the direct realistion of the truth of the identity of the invividual and the Supreme, and are still read as inspirational writings today. Professor Mahe's translation of "The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius" has been made from an old Armenian version and a recently rediscovered Greek manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This collection of aphorisms is closely related to parts of the "Corpus Hermeticum".

Biografía del autor:

Clement Salaman is a teacher and lecturer, and editor of The Letters of Marsilio Ficino (English translation). Dorine van Oyen is a lecturer on music and Hermetic studies in Amsterdam. William D. Wharton teaches Classical history, languages and philosophy at an independent secondary school in Boston, Massachusetts. Jean-Paul Mahe is Correspondent of the Academic des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris.

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• Verlag: Bristol Classical Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0715630938
• ISBN 13: 9780715630938
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166