{"product_id":"the-egyptian-hermes-a-historical-approach-to-the-late-pagan-mind-9780691024981","title":"The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eSage  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666210119733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691024987","price":60.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691024981.jpg?v=1782423370","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-egyptian-hermes-a-historical-approach-to-the-late-pagan-mind-9780691024981","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}