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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

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"My own opinion is that Hermes gave Amphion these gifts, both the [magical] lyre and the headband, because he was overcome by love for him.
And the chlamys he wears, perhaps that also came from

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and make it swift 💙
"Meanwhile the Guide Argeiphontes [Hermes], addressed Leto: ‘Leto, I will not fight with you; since it is a hard thing to come to blows with the…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Euhemerus says that Venus first established the constellations and taught Mercurius."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.42
🏛️ Hermes-Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, Spain

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Hermes, beloved of Polydeukes, one of the Dioskouroi, made him a gift of Dotor, the Thessalian horse."
Ptolemaios Chennos, New History
🏛️ Hermes, Polydeukes, Satyr or Silenos, Italic Stamnos, 400–350 BCE

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"For his wedding with Juno, Jupiter ordered Mercurius to invite all the gods, humans and the animals. Everyone invited by Mercurius came, except for Chelone who didn't deign to be there, mocking the wedding. When Mercuri…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Following his [Hermes'] example, they use the staff [caduceus] in athletic contests and other contests of this kind."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7
🏛️ Scarab intaglio with Hermes,
Italic / Etrusc…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Because there was a lad named Crocus, who together with #Hermes was playing a game of discus, [stood there most carelessly], a…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Enough,’ said she, ‘I'll never move till you are forced away!’ ‘A bargain!’ cried the god and with his magic wand, opened the door. [...] She did not try to speak, nor, had she tried, was way still left for words. Her t…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
I'm travelling today, so please be kind, Hermes, and keep me safe 💙
"Zeus himself . . . commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord . . . over dogs and all the herds and flocks."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Herm…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"When sent by Polydectes, son of Magnes, to the Gorgones, he received from Mercurius [Hermes], who is thought to have loved him, talaria and petasus, and, in addition, a helmet which kept its wearer from being seen by an ene…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"The Eleans said that Pelops was the first to found a temple of #Hermes in Peloponnesos and to sacrifice to the god, his purpos…

It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Hera demanded the cow [Io] from Zeus, and assigned Argos Panoptes as its guard [...] Zeus instructed Hermes to steal her, and Hermes, unable to sneak her out because Hierax had told on him, killed Argos with a stone. From t…