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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 September 2024. Ancient Greek deity and herald of the gods For other uses, see Hermes (disambiguation). Hermes God of boundaries, roads, travelers, merchants, thieves, athletes, shepherds, commerce, speed, cunning, language, oratory, wit, and messages Member of the Twelve Olympians Hermes Ingenui ...
Hermes was also responsible for protecting livestock and presided over the spheres associated with fertility, music, luck, and deception. [9] The son of Zeus and Maia, Hermes is the messenger of the gods, and a psychopomp who leads the souls of the dead into the afterlife. He was depicted either as a handsome and athletic beardless youth, or as ...
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
Greece. The Hermes of Messene (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς τῆς Μεσσήνης) is a large ancient Roman statue of the god Hermes, the Greek god of trade, commerce and messenger of the gods. It was found in 1996 in the old gymnasium of Ancient Messene, in southwestern Peloponnese, Greece, and now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of ...
Hermes of Aegium. Hermes of Aegium ( Greek: Ερμής του Αιγίου) is a lifesize Roman sculpture of the Greek messenger god Hermes found in the town of Aegium in southern Greece in mid nineteenth century. It is now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in the capital Athens under accession number 241. It is nearly intact with ...
In Roman mythology, he was the son of Maia, one of the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas, and Jupiter. [ 1 ] In his earliest forms, he appears to have been related to the Etruscan deity Turms; both gods share characteristics with the Greek god Hermes. He is often depicted holding the caduceus in his left hand.
Argus Panoptes (Ἄργος Πανόπτης) was the guardian of the heifer - nymph Io and the son of Arestor. According to Asclepiades, Argus Panoptes was a son of Inachus, and according to Cercops he was a son of Argus and Ismene, daughter of Asopus. Acusilaus says that he was earth-born (authochthon), born from Gaia. [ 1 ]
t. e. Hermes Trismegistus (from Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς ὁ Τρισμέγιστος, "Hermes the Thrice-Greatest"; Classical Latin: Mercurius ter Maximus) is a legendary Hellenistic period figure that originated as a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. [1]