#dayofhermes — Public Fediverse posts
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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
#mythology #antiquidons
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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 🐏
"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!
#Hermes and a #satyr on their way home from the #NewYearsParty 😉
Perhaps it is one of his three sons known as the Satyroi Hermeides, #satyrs who became the messengers of Dionysos.
Athenian red-figure vase painting, dated ca. 525-475 BCE, today in Berlin Antikensammlung F2160#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #Myth #Mythodon #GreekRomanArt @mythology #GreekGods #AncMed @antiquidons