Hermetica

Hermetica is a category of popular Late Antique literature purporting to contain secret wisdom, and generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes", a syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. A collection of several such Greek texts from the second and third centuries, survivors from a more extensive literature, were compiled into a Corpus Hermeticum by Italian scholars during the Renaissance. Other Hermetic works, however, existed in Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, and other languages.

References

• Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction by Brian P. Copenhaver (Editor) ISBN 0521425433
• The Egyptian Hermes : a historical approach to the late pagan mind by Fowden, Garth. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• Thrice Great Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, Volume II translated by G.R.S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906).