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Hermes

Typical forms instantly

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Birth of Hermes

See Homeric Hymn to Hermes

Maia

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Cave of Kyllini

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  A stalagmite as Maia

See Cave of Hermes (Cave of Kyllini)

Hermes in ancient art

Pottery

Chronological

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  Hermes and Io
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  Hermes and woman
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  Oedipus, Sphinx, Hermes
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Reliefs

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  Artemis and Hermes
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  Hermes in form
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  Hermes and Pan, 330-310 BC
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  Hermes agoraios and the Charites
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  Hermes leads the procession of gods
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Statues

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  Kryoforos (Criophorus), but rather Apollon
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  510-500 BC
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  425 BC
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  27 BC–14 AD after Lysippos
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Atributes

Kaduceus

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Petasos

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Talaria

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Functions and roles

Hermes Kryoforos

alias Criophorus

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  Good shepherd

Hermés in the Underworld

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  Herakles, Theseus and Pirithoos in Hades, with Hermes
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  Hermes, Orpheus and Euridice

Hermes Psychopompos

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  Hypnos, Hermes, Thanatos
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  Myrrhine is taken by hand Hermes psychopompos
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  Hermes Psychopompos and dead man
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  Hermes Psychopompos
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  Charon and Hermes

Messenger

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  Zeus sending forth Hermes and Iris
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  Ephebe or athlete of Marathon, maybe as Hermes

Hermes Propylaios

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Hermes Logios

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  Young Orator or Hermes near a herm
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Hermai

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Hermes Ithyphallicus

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  520 BC
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  490 BC
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  Musican and young man offering at an altar, to the right a herm, 480 BC
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  Young man praying in front of phallic herm, 470 BC
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  470-460 BC
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  460 BC
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  475-450 BC
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  450 BC
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  450-425

The Young gods

Apollo, Hermes and Dionysos

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  Hermes with Maia, Apollo, Dionysos with maenad
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  Apollo, Dionysos, Hermes

Hermes and Apollo

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  Hermes, Apollo, Artemis

Hermes and Dionysos

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  Satyr, Dionysos, Hermes
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  Hermes, Dionysos and Ariadne

Hermes with child Dionysos

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  Olympia
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  Andros

Hermes as Dionysos

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Hermes and the others

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  Birth of Aphrodite
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  Hermes and Satyr
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  Achilleus, Hermes, Phoenix, Odysseus
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  Herrmes, Ajax, dead Achilleus, Athena
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  Artemis Bendis, Apollo, Hermes, young warrior
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  Heracles, Athena, Hermes
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  Aphrodite
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  wth Eros and Aphrodite

Hermes and Herse

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  Hermes pursuing Herse
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  Hermes and Herse

Hermes and Argos

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Hermes and Theseus

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Hermes and Paris

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  Hermes (left) asking Paris to arbitrate, 380 BC
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  Paris and hermes

Temples

See Top of Mount Kyllini

Mercurius

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  215-211 BC
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  40-80 AD
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  54-68 AD
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  Votive plaque, 200 AD
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  3rd century AD
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  3rd century AD
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  3rd century AD
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Analogies and echoes

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  Gallo-Roman civilization
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  1792
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