History: Review of New Books, June 22nd, 2007
Ebeling, Florian The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times Trans. David Lorton Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 149 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4546-0 Publication Date: June 2007
Florian Ebeling's The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times is a revision of his PhD dissertation, completed under Jan Assmann at the University of Heidelberg in 2002. It presents a short overview of Hermeticism, an esoteric movement that began in the late antique Mediterranean.
Ebeling identifies three basic features of the H...
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