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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-05 19:01:12
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! ๐Ÿ
"O Hermes, lord of games (enagรดnios), son of Maia and Zeus!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 212
๐Ÿ› #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
2025-10-29 14:32:53
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! ๐Ÿ
Please, glorious Hermes, keep me safe on my travels today and far, far away from the gates of Hades! ๐Ÿ’™
"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
2026-01-05 10:24:33
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When you sacrifice a cock to your god for winning a competition.
#BumDayMonday
#GreekRomanArt #Hermes

Cameo of a herm with a youth holding a palm branch, a wreath, and a cock. The scene is shown from the side and the art emphasizes the youth's muscular legs and buttocks. The herm is bearded and seems to be either missing an erect phallus or have a miniature one.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-22 07:37:12
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post ๐Ÿ
"Zeus made Hermes his personal herald and messenger of the gods beneath the earth."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.112-115
๐Ÿ› #Hermes Chthonios, Roman copy (1st century CE) after a Greek original by Praxiteles (ca. 350-32โ€ฆ

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
2025-12-29 10:55:40
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On the move into a new year.
#BumDayMonday
๐Ÿ“ธ Photo by Herbert List in Chalkis, Greece, 1937
#Hermes #GreekRomanArt

Hermes sculpture on a roof in Chalkis, Euboea. The statue is broken in half, at his waist. His bum is partly obscured by a cloak or himation but we can still see the nice plump buns peeking through the draping. We know they belong to Hermes because his feet wear winged sandals.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 00:45:06
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ
"Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
Homer, Iliad 5. 385
๐Ÿ› #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 horseโ€™s foreleg remains behind his knee. The stronโ€ฆ
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-15 07:16:02
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A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post ๐Ÿ
"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
๐Ÿ› #Hermes takes the soul of a dead woman to Charon, Attโ€ฆ

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.