Gurgel Pereira, Ronaldo Guilherme. The hermetic logos : reading the "Corpus Hermeticum" as a reflection of Graeco-Egyptian mentality. 2010, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Abstract
This study analyses Hermetic literature and focuses on the seventeen treatises of the so-called Corpus Hermeticum. It takes as its starting point the assumption that what are nowadays known as the Philosophical Hermetica emerged as a product of a Graeco-Egyptian process of self-perception. As will be demonstrated, Hermetic literature helps our understanding of how reformulations of symbolic universes led to a specific Graeco-Egyptian mentality. The Hermetica will be treated as the result of cross-cultural exchange between Greek and Egyptian symbolic universes. Hermetic literature will therefore be analysed according to its historical context, i.e. as part of a Greek-Egyptian dialogue.
Advisors: | Bickel, Susanne |
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Committee Members: | Loprieno, Antonio |
Faculties and Departments: | 04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Altertumswissenschaften > Fachbereich Ägyptologie > Ägyptologie (Bickel) |
UniBasel Contributors: | Bickel, Susanne and Loprieno, Antonio |
Item Type: | Thesis |
Thesis Subtype: | Doctoral Thesis |
Thesis no: | 9262 |
Thesis status: | Complete |
Number of Pages: | 255 Bl. |
Language: | English |
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Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2018 15:51 |
Deposited On: | 26 Jan 2011 14:57 |
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