Asclepius (treatise)

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This article is about the Hermetic text. For the Greek god, see Asclepius (Greek god). For other uses, see Asclepius (disambiguation).

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.