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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-15 07:16:02
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"I see him there at the oars of his little boat in the lake, the ferryman of the dead, Charon, with his hand upon the oar and he calls me now."
Euripides, Alcestis 252
🏛 #Hermes takes the soul of a dead woman to Charon, Att…

Vase painting on a white background. Hermes in a bright red chlamys cloak guides the soul of a dead woman towards the bark of Charon. Hermes is bearded and carries his kerykeion staff and wears a broad-rimmed petasos, a traveller's hat, on his head. Charon is dressed in a black, knee-length exomis that leaves his right breast bare. He also wears a hat. The deceased woman wears a long black himation around her body and as a veil.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-05 19:01:12
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"O Hermes, lord of games (enagônios), son of Maia and Zeus!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 212
🏛 #Hermes and youth, red-figure vase painting

Detail of a red-figure vase painting: Hermes with a young athlete or soldier. Hermes wears his petasos hat on his short, curly hair, a chlamys cloak fastened over his breast, and is nude otherwise He holds his iconic kerykeion staff that identifies him as the god Hermes. The young man beside him is also nude, a spear or javelin in his left hand and a himation draped over his left arm.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-03 07:16:08
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Swollen with pride is your speech, as befits a servant of the gods."
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 953
🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE
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Discovered in 1771 near Rome, this sculpture of the god Hermes is a Roman copy of an earlier Greek work from the fourth century BCE. In ancient times sculptures like this could be found in both public and domestic spaces. After rediscovery, he was displayed at Lansdowne House in London, the home of William Fitzmaurice (1737-1805) who was the British Prime Minister in 1782-83. As the god of travelers, Hermes is shown with a traveler’s cloak draped over his left shoulder and wrapped around his ar…
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info
2025-09-24 14:58:16

#Hermes aktuell komplett kaputt. Für jede Sendung "Sorry, Verzögerung, kommt später" und dann kommts trotzdem. Cybert da wer rum?

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 14:32:53
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, keep me safe on my travels today and far, far away from the gates of Hades! 💙
"Hermes is the minister of Zeus and leads the souls of the departed down to Hades."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.32.4
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White-ground vase painting of Hermes in his role as the guide of souls leading a deceased woman. He is wearing his winged hat and winged boots as well as a short traveller's cloak, the chlamys. In his left he holds his kerykeion staff and he looks back at the soul he is shepherding. The woman's soul is wearing a scarf, veil or himation over her shoulders and a peplos dress as she follows Hermes. She seems to have died young.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-22 07:37:12
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"Zeus made Hermes his personal herald and messenger of the gods beneath the earth."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.112-115
🏛 #Hermes Chthonios, Roman copy (1st century CE) after a Greek original by Praxiteles (ca. 350-32…

Marble sculpture of Hermes Chthonios, Hermes of the Underworld, perhaps representing a syncretism of Hermes in his Underworld aspect with a deceased individual who has been heroized. The god is in the nude with only a himation draped over his left shoulder. There is a tree trunk with a snake coiling around it to his right.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-27 07:57:54
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It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Artemis to please Hera shot the bear. Zeus sent Hermes with orders to save the child [Arkas] that Kallisto bore in her womb."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.3.6
🏛️ Hermes bronze medal

Bronze medal depicting Hermes, seated, nestling with his winged sandal. He's wearing a winged hat and a chlamys closed over his right shoulder. He holds on to a baby that plays with his kerykeion staff.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 00:45:06
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
Homer, Iliad 5. 385
🏛 #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art
#DayOfAres

This carved limestone relief was likely part of a larger frieze that decorated a naiskos, or small temple, above a grave. The relief depicts two warriors striding to the right, one wearing a broad traveller's hat called a petasos and the other a Corinthian helmet. Each wears a short cloak called a chlamys over his left arm (now missing on the righthand warrior). The left warrior looks back, perhaps toward a horseman, since a small fragment of a horse’s foreleg remains behind his knee. The stron…