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The Lion of Chaeronea

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A blog dedicated to classical antiquity, poetry, and the visual arts. All translations of Greek and Latin are my own unless otherwise noted.
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Bronze statuette of Hermes. The god wears his characteristic chlamys (cloak) and winged sandals; he also likely once held his kerykeion (herald's staff). The eyes, which would have been made of glass paste or metal, are now missing. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE/CE (Late Hellenistic or Roman). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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The Underworld ferryman Charon watches as Hermes, in his role as psychopomp, leads the soul of a deceased man toward him. Attic white-ground lekythos, attributed to the Sabouroff Painter; 440s BCE. Now in the Altes Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

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Homeric Hymn 18, "To Hermes"

I sing of Hermes, Dweller on Cyllene, Argos-Slayer, who rules Mount Cyllene And Arcadia abounding in flocks -- The immortals’ much-running messenger, Whom Maia, Atlas’ daughter, bore, Mingling in love with Zeus -- A modest goddess, for she shunned The company of the blessed gods And dwelled in a thickly shaded cave Where Cronus’ son would mix with the nymph Of comely locks in the dead of night, Whenever sweet sleep gripped white-armed Hera; And he escaped the notice of Immortal gods and mortal humans. So thus rejoice, son of Zeus and Maia: Making my beginning with you I shall go on to another hymn. Hail, Hermes, bestower of grace, Go-between, giver of good things! Ἑρμῆν ἀείδω Κυλλήνιον, Ἀργειφόντην, Κυλλήνης μεδέοντα καὶ Ἀρκαδίης πολυμήλου, ἄγγελον ἀθανάτων ἐριούνιον, ὃν τέκε Μαῖα, Ατλαντος θυγάτηρ, Διὸς ἐν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα, αἰδοίη: μακάρων δὲ θεῶν ἀλέεινεν ὅμιλον, ἄντρῳ ναιετάουσα παλισκίῳ: ἔνθα Κρονίων νύμφῃ ἐυπλοκάμῳ μισγέσκετο νυκτὸς ἀμολγῷ, εὖτε κατὰ γλυκὺς ὕπνος ἔχοι λευκώλενον Ἥρην: λάνθανε δ᾽ ἀθανάτους τε θεοὺς θνητούς τ᾽ ἀνθρώπους. καὶ σὺ μὲν οὕτω χαῖρε, Διὸς καὶ Μαιάδος υἱέ: σεῦ δ᾽ ἐγὼ ἀρξάμενος μεταβήσομαι ἄλλον ἐς ὕμνον. [χαῖρ᾽. Ἑρμῆ χαριδῶτα, διάκτορε, δῶτορ ἐάων.]

Hermes. Roman marble copy (2nd cent. CE), with 18th-century restorations by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, after a lost bronze original by Lysippus (ca. 330 BCE). From Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli; now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen. Photo credit: Wolfgang Sauber.

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A gathering of deities: Apollo (riding a griffin), Artemis, Leto (seated), and Hermes. Attic red-figure bell-krater in the manner of the Dinos Painter; ca. 420-410 BCE. Found at Agrigento, Sicily; now in the Altes Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

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Two fighters clash, watched by Athena (left) and Hermes (right). Side A of an Attic red-figure amphora, signed by the potter Andokides and painted by the Andokides Painter; ca. 530 BCE. From Vulci; now in the Louvre.

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Stater of the Arcadian polis of Pheneus. On the obverse, Demeter, wearing a grain wreath; on the reverse, Hermes with the infant Arcas. Artist unknown; ca.360-350 BCE. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

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An Irreverent Call to Hermes

Hipponax, fr. 32

Note: “from another’s house”: lit. “from the other [side of the] wall”. Hermes was patron deity of thieves and burglars.

Hermes, Hermes my friend, Son of Maia, Cyllene-born, To you I pray – for I’m freezing My tail off! My teeth are chattering! Give a cloak to Hipponax And a little frock as well, Maybe some sandals too And fur-lined shoes for winter… Oh, and sixty gold staters, Robbed from another’s house. Ἑρμῆ, φίλ᾿ Ἑρμῆ, Μαιαδεῦ, Κυλλήνιε, ἐπεύχομαί τοι, κάρτα γὰρ κακῶς ῥιγῶ καὶ βαμβαλύζω . . . δὸς χλαῖναν Ἱππώνακτι καὶ κυπασσίσκον καὶ σαμβαλίσκα κἀσκερίσκα καὶ χρυσοῦ στατῆρας ἑξήκοντα τοὐτέρου τοίχου.

Mercury, Argus, and Io, Abraham Bloemaert, ca. 1592

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The messenger-god Hermes, wearing his winged sandals and carrying his herald’s staff (kerykeion). Attic red-figure lekythos (oil-flask), attr. to the Tithonos Painter; ca. 480-470 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Marble head of Hermes.  Hellenistic copy after a 5th cent. BCE herm.  Found in the Theater Quarter of Delos; now in the Archaeological Museum of Delos.  Photo credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.

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Hermes Chthonios, perhaps representing syncretism of Hermes in his Underworld aspect with a deceased individual who has been heroized.  Roman copy (1st cent. CE) after a Greek original by Praxiteles (ca. 350-325 BCE).  Now in the Archaeological Museum of Andros.  Photo credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons.

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A Cool Rest for Wayfarers

Anthologia Planudea 11 = Hermocreon (3rd cent. BCE?) O stranger, as you pass by, sit Beneath this shady plane-tree, Whose leaves the West Wind sets to quivering With his gentle gusts. Here Nicagoras set me up – Hermes, Maia’s son – To keep watch over his fruit-rich fields And his herds of cattle.  Ἵζευ ὑπὸ σκιερὰν πλάτανον, ξένε, τάνδε παρέρπων,     ἇς ἁπαλῷ Ζέφυρος πνεύματι φύλλα δονεῖ, ἔνθα με Νικαγόρας κλυτὸν εἵσατο Μαιάδος Ἑρμᾶν     ἀγροῦ καρποτόκου ῥύτορα καὶ κτεάνων.

The Patrician’s Siesta, Henryk Siemiradzki, 1881

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