Asclepius (treatise)

The Asclepius, also known as the Perfect Discourse (from the Greek Logos teleios),[a] is a religio-philosophical Hermetic treatise. The original Greek text, which was likely written in Alexandria between 100 CE and 300 CE,[1] is largely lost and only a few fragments remain. However, the full text is extant in an early Latin translation, and fragments from a Coptic translation have also been found among the documents discovered in Nag Hammadi.[2]


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  1. ^ Salaman 2007, p. 11.
  2. ^ Robinson 1990, pp. 12–13; Copenhaver 1992, pp. xliii–xliv. Critical editions of the Latin text in Nock & Festugière 1945–1954 and Stefani 2019; English translations of the Latin in Copenhaver 1992 and Salaman 2007; English translation of the Coptic fragments in Brashler, Dirkse & Parrott 1990.

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