Hermes' most distinctive attribute was the herald's wand (Greek kerykeion, Latin caduceus) but he was sometimes armed instead with a short sword. The god was clothed in a knee-length robe (chiton) with a short cloak (chlamys), winged boots, and a brimmed, traveller's hat. The hat ...
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES GOD OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Hermes was the god of animal husbandry, including cattle-herding, shepherding, goat-herding and even the breeding of horses and mules. In this role he represented both the protection and flourishing of the herds and their destruction by wild beast...
Trump Fifteen becomes Typhon, a Greek name for Set, Osiris’s evil brother. Trump Sixteen is the House of God, its French title, or the Castle of Plutus, a reference to a tower stuffed with gold that fell into ruin crushing its worshipers. Court de Gébelin also relates the image to...
The other myth pages cover stories about the adult god, his role as the agent of Zeus, his loves, wrath and favour. (See the Hermes pages index for details.)CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESBIRTH OF HERMESI. SON OF ZEUS & MAIAHesiod, Theogony 938 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th ...
Quotes - items owned by the god; sacred plants and animals Quotes - attendants of the god PART 8: CULT OF HERMES Quotes - cult of the god organised by region PART 9: TITLES & EPITHETS List of Cult Titles and Poetic Epithets PAGE BORDER: Derived from on an ancient Greek vase painting...
The god was even said to have loaned him his winged sandals.CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESHERMES FAVOUR : PERSEUSPerseus, Hermes, Athena, beheaded Medusa and the Gorgons, Athenian black-figure pyxis C6th B.C., Musée du Louvre LOCALE : Seriphos (Greek Aegean)...
Greek Name Ἑρμης Transliteration Hermês Latin Spelling Hermes Translation Mercury Zeus, birth of Dionysus, and Hermes, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston HERMES was the Olympian god of herds, trade, heralds, athletes and thieves.This page ...
Hermes was the Olympian god of herds, trade, heralds, athletes and thieves. This page describes the god's attributes, estate, sacred plants and animals, and attendant gods. Hermes' attributes in classical art were the herald's wand (Latin caduceus, Greek
Greek Name Ἑρμης Transliteration Hermês Latin Spelling Hermes Translation Mercury Hermes slaying Argus Panoptes, Athenian red-figure vase C5th B.C., Kunsthistorisches Museum HERMES was the Olympian god of herds, trade, heralds, athletes and thieves.This page contains stories of Hermes...
1. 7 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "The Eleans said that Pelops was the first to found a temple of Hermes in Peloponnesos and to sacrifice to the god, his purpose being to avert the wrath of the god for the death of Myrtilos."...