{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/th3/th332.htm","path":"gno/th3/th332.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/th3/th332.htm","text":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906]\nLibellus pro Christianis, 1 xxviii.; Schwartz (E.), p. 57, 24 (Leipzig, 1891). 2\nAthenagoras was acquainted with a Greek literature circulated under the name of Hermes Trismegistus, to whom he refers as authority for his euhemeristic contention that the gods were once simply men. 3\n220:1 Written probably about 176-177 A.D.\n220:2 In Texte u. Untersuchungen (von Gebhardt and Harnack), Bd. iv.\n220:3 Cf. R, pp. 2 and 160.","title":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3: II. References and Fragments in the Fathers: II. Athenagoras","type":"page"}