Thirteen late-antique philosophical dialogues attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus, the Greek-speaking Egyptian sage. Composed in Hellenistic Egypt across the first three centuries CE, the Corpus blends Greek philosophy with Egyptian theology and what would later be called Gnostic insight. The Renaissance read it as the most ancient Christian-adjacent wisdom tradition; Ficino's 1471 Latin translation electrified Florence and shaped the Western esoteric and contemplative imagination from then on. It sits in this section as the pagan Greco-Egyptian cousin of the Gnostic texts.