Hermias (sometimes Hermias Philosophus or Hermias the Philosopher; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμείας) was an obscure Christian apologist, presumed to have lived in 3rd century. Nothing is known of him, except his name. He wrote a Derision of gentile philosophers (Diasyrmos ton Exo Philosophon), a short parody on Greek philosophical themes (the nature of the body, the soul, the world). From Paul's statement in the First Epistle to the Corinthians that "all worldly knowledge is foolishness to God" he affirms that all philosophical doctrines come from the apostasy of the angels and therefore wrong and laughable. Hermias relies rather on cynical and skeptical culture critique and on philosophical biographies and anedoctes than in their real writings. (From Wikipedia)
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Hermias: Derision of Gentile Philosophers, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at tertullian.org)
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Hermias: Corpus apologetarum christianorum saeculi secundi (prostat in libraria H.Dufft, 1851), also by Johann Karl Theodor von Otto, Prudent Moran, Claudius Apollinaris, Saint Melito, Miltiades, active 2nd century Aristo Pellaeus, Marcianus Aristides, Quadratus, Saint Theophilus, Athenagoras of Athens, approximately 120-173 Tatian, and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)- Hermias: Corpvs apologetarvm christianorvm saecvli secvndi (prostat in libraria H.Dvfft, 1851), also by J. C. Th. Otto, Prudent Moran, Claudius Apollinaris, Saint Melito, Miltiades, 2d cent Aristo Pellaeus, Marcianus Aristides, Quadratus, Saint Theophilus, 2nd cent Athenagoras, ca. 120-173 Tatian, and Justin Martyr (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hermias: Irrisio gentilium philosophorum. Apologetarum Quadrati, Aristidis, Aristonis, Miltiadis, Melitonis, Apollinaris reliquiae. (In Libraria Maukii, 1872), also by Prudent Maran, Johann Karl Theodor von Otto, Marcianus Aristides, Saint Melito, active 2d century Militiades, active 2d century Aristo Pellaeus, active 2nd century Aristides, and Claudius Apollinaris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hermias: Le procès d'Hermias d'après les documents démotiques et grecs (Paris, 1882), also by Horos and Eugène Revillout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hermias: Opuscula Platonica: The three fundamental ideas of the human mind; Hermeias' Platonic demonstration, Of the immortality of the soul ([Press of Republican], 1908), also by Thomas Moore Johnson, Boethius, and Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hermias: Opuscula platonica : the three fundamental ideas of the human mind : Hermias' Platonic demonstration of the immortality of the soul ([Press of the Repulican], 1987), also by Thomas Moore Johnson, Boethius, and Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hermias: Specimen theologicum inaugurale quo exhibetur Hermeiou tou philosophou diasyrmos tōn hexo philosophōn ... (Lugduni Batavorum, 1840), also by Willem Frederik Menzel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hermias: Tatianou Pros Hellēnas. Hermiou Diasyrmos tōn hexō philosophōn (E Theatro Sheldoniano ;, 1700), also by approximately 120-173 Tatian, William Worth, Louis Dufour de Longuerue, Raphael Seiler, and Denis-Nicolas Le Nourry (page images at HathiTrust)
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