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It is an ancient Greek name; in Greek mythology there are at least two personalities bearing the name. One was Pixodarus , a shepherd who discovered the marble from which the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was built (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ), and was thereafter worshiped as a god named Evangelos, because he brought the good ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. 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 ...
The Greek word ἄγγελόν is angel, which can also be translated as messenger. Lapide notes that some people actually believed that John was an angel. The phrase, "who shall prepare your way," MacEvilly notes is allusive to the custom of preparing ways, by removing obstacles for the coming of a king into some part of their dominion.
The UBS Greek Dictionary also describes an apostle broadly as a messenger. The Louw-Nida Lexicon gives a very narrow definition of a special messenger, generally restricted to the immediate followers of Jesus, or extended to some others like Paul or other early Christians active in proclaiming the gospel.
The Greek historian Herodotus was the first person to write about a Athenian runner named Pheidippides participating in the First Persian War. His account is as follows: [10] Before they left the city, the Athenian generals sent off a message to Sparta. The messenger was an Athenian named Pheidippides, a professional long-distance runner.
But then there have been a lot of times where it’s been the opposite, where people say, ‘You’re not African. You’re Greek. You’re ‘The Greek Freak.’ But I don’t really care about that.
Hermes of Messene is dated to the first century AD, a Roman period copy of a previous Greek bronze original from the fourth century BC, a work of the school of the famous Greek sculptor Polyclitus. It was discovered in 1996, in room IX of the western stoa of the old gymnasium in ancient Messene, face down.
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