Thrice-Greatest Hermes Volume I: Prolegomena
Author: G. R. S. Mead
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Title: Thrice-Greatest Hermes Volume I: Prolegomena
Author: G. R. S. Mead
Description: The first volume of G. R. S. Mead's 1906 study of the Trismegistic literature, opening with a biographical introduction to Mead and continuing with the prolegomena to the Corpus Hermeticum. Covers the historical, religious, and philosophical background of Hermes Trismegistus and the Hellenistic Egyptian context in which the Hermetic writings emerged.
Pages: 305
Size: 2.62 MB
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