8vo. 540 pp., 3 plates, 1 plan, modern brown cloth, publisher’s original wrappers preserved, title gilt, index, appendix, all edges red, Ex-library with the usual labels and stamps, otherwise copy clean and in very good condition, Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome Fascicule 194, Editions E de Boccard, Paris, 1959.

Synopsis

André-Jean Festugière (1898- 1982), a French philosopher and a Dominican philologist, was a specialist in Neoplatonism, especially Proclus . He was responsible for the translation and publishing of writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. He then joined the French School of Rome (1920-1921) and the French School of Athens (1921-1922).
His research was devoted to the religious thought of pagan antiquity in his contacts with nascent Christianity. He edited and translated many texts of the Council of Ephesus and the Council of Chalcedon, the philosopher Neoplatonist Proclus and the Corpus Hermeticum attributed to alleged Hermes Trismegistus.