A critical edition of a Hermetic corpus, Greek and Coptic text with a facing scholarly French translation, prepared by a classicist and a historian of religion across four volumes. The edition every later translation of the same texts is checked against.
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Tier 1 because this is a critical edition, Greek and Coptic text with a facing scholarly French translation, prepared by a classicist and a historian of religion across four volumes. The edition every later translation of the same corpus is checked against, placed at this atlas's top tier alongside its other critical scholarly editions. NotesThe Bude series critical edition of the Corpus Hermeticum, Greek and Coptic text with facing French translation, prepared by the classicist A.D. Nock and the historian of religion A.-J. Festugiere across four volumes issued between 1945 and 1954. The edition every later translation of the Hermetica, including Brian Copenhaver's English version, is checked against.
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AuthorEdited by A.D. Nock; translated by A.-J. Festugiere
PublisherLes Belles Lettres
Publication Year1945
Source TypeCritical edition
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Esoteric Texts, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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