The Asclepius. Thoughts on a re-opened debate

In a recent article, V. Hunink, following a hint of B.L. Hijmans Jr.’s, rekindles controversy on the Asclepius. In the particularly complex field of authorship and attribution, startling novelties (which are often enough revivals of old theses) are in themselves by no means unwelcome: but when V. Hunink revives the assertion that Apuleius wrote the Asclepius, a detailed and systematic answer is required. This text is the Latin translation of a Greek treatise attributed, like a series of comparable Greek theosophic treatises, to the divine and charismatic figure of Hermes Trismegistos. […]