The Corpus Hermeticum and the Hermetic Asclepius
- Date of account
- Probably second–third centuries CE; Renaissance rediscovery
- Location
- Greco-Egyptian intellectual world; later Florence and Europe
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius are late antique texts attributed pseudepigraphically to Hermes Trismegistus, combining cosmology, theology, spiritual ascent, and ritual-philosophical themes. They matter for tracing how Egyptian identity, Greek philosophy, Christian polemic, and Renaissance magic became linked through the idea of an ancient primordial wisdom. Renaissance readers often misdated the texts to a remote pre-Christian antiquity; modern scholarship places them in late antiquity. Manuscript transmission, translation, and differences among treatises are central to interpretation.
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