The Egyptian Hermes

by Garth Fowden

1993 244 pages eng

This is the first book on the sage, scientist and sorcerer Hermes Trismegistus who 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 a whole library of books on mag…