CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Apollo 1, Bureau Of International Expositions
Document Summary
Goes back and forth between humans and olympians. Hermes = messenger of the gods; boundary-crosser ; god of translations. Main domain = pastures; country god; shepherding. Caduceus = magical staff bangs it and changes people"s state of mind. Herm statues depictions of hermes that only show the face and the phallus. Last of the olympic gods to be entered in the pantheon. Hermes" mother maia (nymph) mates with zeus and produces hermes. Maia = daughter of atlas with zeus. Tries to trick apollo: zigzag path; turns cattle backwards; disguise their tracks, sacrifices 2 of cattle/ 12 portions. Apollo = bie (brute force)/ hermes = metis (clever speech)
