Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Egyptian HermesCondition: NewSubtitle: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan MindISBN-10: 0691024987EAN: 9780691024981ISBN: 9780691024981Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/21/1993Description: 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. 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. Starting from the complex fusions and tensions that molded Graeco-Egyptian culture, and in particular Hermetism, during the centuries after Alexander, Garth 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." This assumption that philosophy and religion, even cult, bring one eventually to the same goal was typically late antique, and guaranteed the Hermetica a far-flung readership, even among Christians.The focus and conclusion of this study is an assault on the problem of the social milieu of Hermetism.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 397gAuthor: Garth FowdenGenre: HistoryBook Series: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World MythologyTopic: Society & Culture, Language & Reference, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 1993 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Egyptian Hermes
Title: The Egyptian Hermes
Subtitle: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
ISBN-10: 0691024987
EAN: 9780691024981
ISBN: 9780691024981
Release Date: 06/21/1993
Release Year: 1993
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Egyptian Hermes : a Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 1993
Subject: Paganism & Neo-Paganism, Ancient, Antiquities & Archaeology, Hermetism & Rosicrucianism
Item Height: 0.8 in
Features: Revised
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion
Author: Garth Fowden
Series: Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
