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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wodensday! 🐺🐺
"Another great abode is there, which is named Valaskjálf. Odin possesses that dwelling. The gods made it and thatched it with sheer silver, and in this hall is the Hliðskjálf, the high seat so called. Whenever Allfather sits in that seat, he surveys all lands."
Prose Edda, Gylfaginning🏛 Odin on his throne Hlidskjalf from Lerje, #Denmark, dated 900 CE
#mythology #Medievodons #medievalArt #DayOfHermes #history #Odin #OdinsDay
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wodensday! 🐺🐺
"Another great abode is there, which is named Valaskjálf. Odin possesses that dwelling. The gods made it and thatched it with sheer silver, and in this hall is the Hliðskjálf, the high seat so called. Whenever Allfather sits in that seat, he surveys all lands."
Prose Edda, Gylfaginning🏛 Odin on his throne Hlidskjalf from Lerje, #Denmark, dated 900 CE
#mythology #Medievodons #medievalArt #DayOfHermes #history #Odin #OdinsDay
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Semele asked Jove to come to her in this way. Her request was granted, and Jove, coming with lightning and thunder, burnt Semele to death. From her womb Liber [Bacchus] was born. Mercurius snatched him from the fire and gave him to Nysus to be reared."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 179🏛 Hermes and baby Dionysos #mosaic
#mythology #antiquidons
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Semele asked Jove to come to her in this way. Her request was granted, and Jove, coming with lightning and thunder, burnt Semele to death. From her womb Liber [Bacchus] was born. Mercurius snatched him from the fire and gave him to Nysus to be reared."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 179🏛 Hermes and baby Dionysos #mosaic
#mythology #antiquidons
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Enjoy the last day of 2025 🥂
"At the proper time #Zeus loosened the stitches and gave birth to #Dionysos, whom he entrusted to #Hermes. Hermes took him to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to bring him up as a girl."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.26🏛 Roman marble relief, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Rome
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Enjoy the last day of 2025 🥂
"At the proper time #Zeus loosened the stitches and gave birth to #Dionysos, whom he entrusted to #Hermes. Hermes took him to Ino and Athamas, and persuaded them to bring him up as a girl."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.26🏛 Roman marble relief, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Rome
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The god [Hermes] spoke to her [Ino] in friendly coaxing tones, and let pass a divine message from his prophetic throat: ‘Madam, receive a new son [baby Dionysos]; lay in your bosom the child of Semele your sister."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9. 59🏛 #Hermes, child Dionysos and Ino, Attic red-figure hydria, Athens, A. Kyrou Collection 71
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The god [Hermes] spoke to her [Ino] in friendly coaxing tones, and let pass a divine message from his prophetic throat: ‘Madam, receive a new son [baby Dionysos]; lay in your bosom the child of Semele your sister."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9. 59🏛 #Hermes, child Dionysos and Ino, Attic red-figure hydria, Athens, A. Kyrou Collection 71
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c🏛 #Hermes weighing souls, Athenian red-figure amphora from Nola, ca 460 BCE, by the Nikon Painter
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"It is said that after death, the tutelary god (daimon) of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together [i.e. Hermes]; then they are judged and depart to the other world with the guide."
Plato, Phaedo 107c🏛 #Hermes weighing souls, Athenian red-figure amphora from Nola, ca 460 BCE, by the Nikon Painter
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"When Mercurius first made the lyre on Mount Cyllene . . . Apollo took the lyre, and is said to have taught Orpheus on it, and after he himself had invented the cithara, he gave the lyre to Orpheus."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7🏛 #Hermes, Orpheus, and Eurydike, marble relief, 27 BCE – 14 AD, Torre del Greco (Naples)
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"When Mercurius first made the lyre on Mount Cyllene . . . Apollo took the lyre, and is said to have taught Orpheus on it, and after he himself had invented the cithara, he gave the lyre to Orpheus."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7🏛 #Hermes, Orpheus, and Eurydike, marble relief, 27 BCE – 14 AD, Torre del Greco (Naples)
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"O Hermes, lord of games (enagônios), son of Maia and Zeus!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 212🏛 #Hermes and youth, red-figure vase painting
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"O Hermes, lord of games (enagônios), son of Maia and Zeus!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 212🏛 #Hermes and youth, red-figure vase painting
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, keep me safe on my travels today and far, far away from the gates of Hades! 💙
"Hermes is the minister of Zeus and leads the souls of the departed down to Hades."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.32.4🏛 #Hermes Psychopompos accompanying the souls of the dead, Greek Kylix, 470-460 BCE
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, keep me safe on my travels today and far, far away from the gates of Hades! 💙
"Hermes is the minister of Zeus and leads the souls of the departed down to Hades."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.32.4🏛 #Hermes Psychopompos accompanying the souls of the dead, Greek Kylix, 470-460 BCE
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"Zeus made Hermes his personal herald and messenger of the gods beneath the earth."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.112-115🏛 #Hermes Chthonios, Roman copy (1st century CE) after a Greek original by Praxiteles (ca. 350-325 BCE). Now in the Archaeological Museum of Andros.
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"Zeus made Hermes his personal herald and messenger of the gods beneath the earth."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.112-115🏛 #Hermes Chthonios, Roman copy (1st century CE) after a Greek original by Praxiteles (ca. 350-325 BCE). Now in the Archaeological Museum of Andros.
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"I see him there at the oars of his little boat in the lake, the ferryman of the dead, Charon, with his hand upon the oar and he calls me now."
Euripides, Alcestis 252🏛 #Hermes takes the soul of a dead woman to Charon, Attic lecythus, 450 BCE
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"I see him there at the oars of his little boat in the lake, the ferryman of the dead, Charon, with his hand upon the oar and he calls me now."
Euripides, Alcestis 252🏛 #Hermes takes the soul of a dead woman to Charon, Attic lecythus, 450 BCE
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"Hear me, Hermes, messenger of Zeus, son of Maia.
Almighty is your heart, O lord of the deceased and judge of contests.
Gentle and clever, O Argeiphontes, you are a guide whose sandals fly,
And a man-loving prophet to mortals.
You are vigorous and you delight in exercise and in deceit."
Orphic Hymn 28🏛 #Hermes on a roof in Chalkis, Euboea, Greece
📸 Herbert List, 1937 -
A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"Hear me, Hermes, messenger of Zeus, son of Maia.
Almighty is your heart, O lord of the deceased and judge of contests.
Gentle and clever, O Argeiphontes, you are a guide whose sandals fly,
And a man-loving prophet to mortals.
You are vigorous and you delight in exercise and in deceit."
Orphic Hymn 28🏛 #Hermes on a roof in Chalkis, Euboea, Greece
📸 Herbert List, 1937 -
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#PhallusThursday has come prematurely 💦
"Hear me, Hermes, messenger of Zeus, son of Maia.
Almighty is your heart, O lord of the deceased and judge of contests.
Gentle and clever, O Argeiphontes, you are a guide whose sandals fly,
And a man-loving prophet to mortals."
Orphic Hymn 28 To Hermes🏛️ Vase painting depicting a herm
#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#PhallusThursday has come prematurely 💦
"Hear me, Hermes, messenger of Zeus, son of Maia.
Almighty is your heart, O lord of the deceased and judge of contests.
Gentle and clever, O Argeiphontes, you are a guide whose sandals fly,
And a man-loving prophet to mortals."
Orphic Hymn 28 To Hermes🏛️ Vase painting depicting a herm
#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Without you mortals hold no banquet . . . and you, Argeiphontes [Hermes] . . . be favourable and help us, you and Hestia, the worshipful and dear. Come and dwell in this glorious house in friendship together."
Homeric Hymn 29 to Hestia🏛️ Greek mixing bowl (kalyx krater) depicting a sacrifice to Hermes, 425–420 BCE
#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Without you mortals hold no banquet . . . and you, Argeiphontes [Hermes] . . . be favourable and help us, you and Hestia, the worshipful and dear. Come and dwell in this glorious house in friendship together."
Homeric Hymn 29 to Hestia🏛️ Greek mixing bowl (kalyx krater) depicting a sacrifice to Hermes, 425–420 BCE
#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"They say he [Hermes] was responsible for profit and an overseer of the businesses: consequently they set up the statue of him weighing a purse."
Suidas s.v. Hermes🏛️ Hermes bronze figurine
📸 Me 🙂#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"They say he [Hermes] was responsible for profit and an overseer of the businesses: consequently they set up the statue of him weighing a purse."
Suidas s.v. Hermes🏛️ Hermes bronze figurine
📸 Me 🙂#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, be my guide today! 💙
"Finerod Hermes departed, fanning his light wings, and the flat of his extended shoes oared him as quick as the winds of heaven in their course."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.373🏛️ Hermes fresco, House of the Ancient Hunt, #Pompeii, 1st century CE
#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, be my guide today! 💙
"Finerod Hermes departed, fanning his light wings, and the flat of his extended shoes oared him as quick as the winds of heaven in their course."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.373🏛️ Hermes fresco, House of the Ancient Hunt, #Pompeii, 1st century CE
#mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Swollen with pride is your speech, as befits a servant of the gods."
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 953🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Swollen with pride is your speech, as befits a servant of the gods."
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 953🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Artemis to please Hera shot the bear. Zeus sent Hermes with orders to save the child [Arkas] that Kallisto bore in her womb."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.3.6🏛️ Hermes bronze medal
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Artemis to please Hera shot the bear. Zeus sent Hermes with orders to save the child [Arkas] that Kallisto bore in her womb."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.3.6🏛️ Hermes bronze medal
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Euhemerus says that Venus first established the constellations and taught Mercurius."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.42🏛️ Hermes-Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, Spain
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Euhemerus says that Venus first established the constellations and taught Mercurius."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.42🏛️ Hermes-Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, Spain
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Following his [Hermes'] example, they use the staff [caduceus] in athletic contests and other contests of this kind."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7🏛️ Scarab intaglio with Hermes,
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Following his [Hermes'] example, they use the staff [caduceus] in athletic contests and other contests of this kind."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7🏛️ Scarab intaglio with Hermes,
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and keep me safe 💙
"Zeus himself . . . commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord . . . over dogs and all the herds and flocks."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes🏛️ Red-Figure Kylix by the Iliupersis Painter, ca 375–350 BCE, Apulia in Magna Graecia
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and keep me safe 💙
"Zeus himself . . . commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord . . . over dogs and all the herds and flocks."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes🏛️ Red-Figure Kylix by the Iliupersis Painter, ca 375–350 BCE, Apulia in Magna Graecia
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Hera demanded the cow [Io] from Zeus, and assigned Argos Panoptes as its guard [...] Zeus instructed Hermes to steal her, and Hermes, unable to sneak her out because Hierax had told on him, killed Argos with a stone. From this came Hermes' surname Argeiphontes."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7🏛️ Attic red figure vase painting, circa 490 BCE
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Hera demanded the cow [Io] from Zeus, and assigned Argos Panoptes as its guard [...] Zeus instructed Hermes to steal her, and Hermes, unable to sneak her out because Hierax had told on him, killed Argos with a stone. From this came Hermes' surname Argeiphontes."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7🏛️ Attic red figure vase painting, circa 490 BCE
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and make it swift 💙
"Meanwhile the Guide Argeiphontes [Hermes], addressed Leto: ‘Leto, I will not fight with you; since it is a hard thing to come to blows with the brides of Zeus who gathers the clouds. No sooner you may freely speak among the immortal gods, and claim that you were stronger than I, and beat me.’"
Homer, Iliad 21.493🏛️ Alabastron, 490-480 BCE
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and make it swift 💙
"Meanwhile the Guide Argeiphontes [Hermes], addressed Leto: ‘Leto, I will not fight with you; since it is a hard thing to come to blows with the brides of Zeus who gathers the clouds. No sooner you may freely speak among the immortal gods, and claim that you were stronger than I, and beat me.’"
Homer, Iliad 21.493🏛️ Alabastron, 490-480 BCE
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"For his wedding with Juno, Jupiter ordered Mercurius to invite all the gods, humans and the animals. Everyone invited by Mercurius came, except for Chelone who didn't deign to be there, mocking the wedding. When Mercurius noticed her absence, he went back down to earth, threw her house in the river and changed Chelone in an animal [a tortoise]."
Servius, On Virgil's Aeneid 1.505🎨 Hades Game #fanart
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"For his wedding with Juno, Jupiter ordered Mercurius to invite all the gods, humans and the animals. Everyone invited by Mercurius came, except for Chelone who didn't deign to be there, mocking the wedding. When Mercurius noticed her absence, he went back down to earth, threw her house in the river and changed Chelone in an animal [a tortoise]."
Servius, On Virgil's Aeneid 1.505🎨 Hades Game #fanart
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Enough,’ said she, ‘I'll never move till you are forced away!’ ‘A bargain!’ cried the god and with his magic wand, opened the door. [...] She did not try to speak, nor, had she tried, was way still left for words. Her throat, mouth, lips were hardened into stone."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.708🏛️ Hermes, detail, relief
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Enough,’ said she, ‘I'll never move till you are forced away!’ ‘A bargain!’ cried the god and with his magic wand, opened the door. [...] She did not try to speak, nor, had she tried, was way still left for words. Her throat, mouth, lips were hardened into stone."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.708🏛️ Hermes, detail, relief
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"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 [Hermes' son] Myrtilos."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.1.7🏛️ Hermes with a ram, bas-relief, 2nd-3rd century CE, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"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 [Hermes' son] Myrtilos."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.1.7🏛️ Hermes with a ram, bas-relief, 2nd-3rd century CE, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy
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#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekRomanArt