Hermetica

Hermes Trismegistus. Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. Translated by Walter Scott. Vol. 1: Introduction, Texts, and Translation.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924; repr., Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2001.

9781570626302; Genre--History; Philosophy

First published in 1924, this is volume one of the classic four-volume work that contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus.  Walter Scott provided extensive notes, commentary, and addenda.  The introduction alone covers the complete publication history of the Corpus Hermeticum from the first centuries. 

Encapsulated as a platonic dialogue between a teacher (usually Trismegistus) and one or two of his disciples (often his son Tat and/or student Asclepius).  The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire, among men who had received some instruction in Greek philosophy, and especially the Platonism of the period, but were not content with merely accepting and repeating the cut-and-dried dogmas of the orthodox philosophic schools and sought to build up, on a basis of Platonic doctrine, a philosophic religion that would better satisfy their needs. Included here are the libelli of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Asclepius, the Hermetic excerpts in the Anthologium of Stobaeus, and other fragments.  The entire text is produced in the original Greek or Latin, with an English translation on facing pages. 

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