CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hermaphroditus, Petasos

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Attributes: traveller"s cap (petasus), herald"s wand (caduceus) messenger of zeus, winged boots (talaria) Character: essence: mobility and mental agility, concerns, divine messenger- always found to be helping heroes, would often involve helping heroes instead of bringing them messages. In case of the troy story, achilles k"illed hector and king priam wanted to go back to get his son"s body back. Hermes helps priam get the body back for proper burial: god of thieves, tricksters, merchants, god of boundaries. Messenger of zeus, crossing between heaven and earth. Zeus to tell some mortal what to do. He is not often violent (but argeiphontes ), not like zeus and apollo and athena. Argeiphontes means killer of argus, hermes was the one who killed the hundred eye titan. Stories: birth- steals cavil of apollo and his cattle the first day he was born. When apollo realizes that his cattle are gone, he finds hermes snuggling up with his blanket.