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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 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 ...
A Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE (Museo Pio-Clementino, Rome) The caduceus (☤; / k ə ˈ dj uː ʃ ə s,-s i ə s /; Latin: cādūceus, from Ancient Greek: κηρύκειον kērū́keion "herald's wand, or staff") [b] is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in
Hermes is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. The masculine given name may also refer to: . Saint Hermes, several Christian martyrs; Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the thrice-greatest"), the purported author of the Hermetic Corpus, a series of Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from the 2nd century AD and later
[a] His name is compounded of his parents' names, Hermes and Aphrodite. [1] He was one of the Erotes [citation needed]. Because Hermaphroditus was a child of Hermes, and consequently a great-grandchild of Atlas (Hermes's mother Maia was the daughter of Atlas), he is sometimes called Atlantiades (Greek: Ἀτλαντιάδης). [2]
In Greek mythology, Cyllene (/ s aɪ ˈ l iː n iː /; Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη, romanized: Kullḗnē pronounced [kyllɛ̌ːnɛ]), also spelled Kyllene (/ k aɪ ˈ l iː n iː /), is the Naiad [1] or Oread nymph [citation needed] and the personification of Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, the region in Greece where the god of travelers and shepherds Hermes was born and brought up.
God of the seas, water, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and horses. The middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades. Married to the Nereid Amphitrite; although, as with many of the male Greek gods, he had many lovers. His symbols include the trident, horse, bull, and dolphin. Demeter: Ceres
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.
Depicted having a human body and a jackal head, with the sacred caduceus that belonged to the Greek god Hermes, he represented the Egyptian priesthood. He engaged in the investigation of truth. [4] [5] [6] The divine name Ἑρμανοῦβις (Hermanoubis) is known from a handful of epigraphic and literary sources, mostly of the Roman period.