CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homeric Hymns, Herma, Peloponnesian War
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Gr word: herma= pile of stone, boundary marker. Usually rep with a traveller hat, sandles with wings, walking staff that comes from 2 serpents cadeseus . Fertility god, his fertiality aspected taken by pan. He does not have a beard so looks younger the apollo. The god of thieves and merchants aspect, pipe) Inventor figure/ culture bringer (lyre, fire for mortals son of zeus and picked up this. He gives the lyre as a gift to apollo, but the pipe remains with hermes because he is also the god of sheppard"s. He"s the one that sends souls away to the underworld when they die. Ofthen called argeiphotes the killer of argos (myth of io and argus) Rep as wearing the caduceus, the travel"s hat, winged sandels. Pattern = he is the god of crossing boundaries up to the heaven and. Hermes + herminoics = art of interpretation, he is a.
