Late antiquity

Late antiquity

• Late antiquity is associated with Hermeticism.

  Hermetic treatises are late antique Greek. A period, not a pharaonic archive.

  from Brian P. Copenhaver (translation) · Corpus Hermeticum, c. 2nd–3rd century CE (Greek treatises)

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• Late antiquity is associated with Hermes.

  Late antique Hermetica speak in Hermes’ name. Dating that literature is not identifying the hymn’s god with the planet or the metal.

  from Brian P. Copenhaver (translation) · Corpus Hermeticum, c. 2nd–3rd century CE (Greek treatises)

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