CLST 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mount Kyllini, Greco-Roman Mysteries, Homeric Hymns

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 203
• Professor: Graeme Ward

Document Summary

His father is zeus, mother is the nymph maia . Messenger and trickster god because he is quick, god of luck. Homeric hymn, hermes kills a tortoise, turns it into a lyre, steals apollo"s cattle . Hermes says he"ll keep the cattle in return for the tortoise shell lyre. God of music father of shepherd daphnis (learned the pipes from pan) God of merchants to do with his role of livestock. Temples established across the the roman empire in fora. Mercury a thief as a god of business mercurial . He guides souls as well as the living male equivalent to iris. Hermes psychopompus guiding souls into hades, only olympian that can. From mount kyllini cyllenian hermes, many livestock there, from greece. Associated with fertility through objects called herma ithyphallic. Hermes as a pastoral guardian of boundaries, crossroads and transitions. Hermes is called argus-slayer sent to destroy argus who he tells stories to.