Hermes | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/12/2018

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Hermes


00:01:19 1 Etymology and origins
00:03:10 2 Mythology
00:03:19 2.1 Early Greek sources
00:03:28 2.1.1 Homer and Hesiod
00:04:50 2.1.2 Athenian tragic playwrights
00:05:23 2.1.3 Aesop
00:05:45 2.1.4 Hermes lovers
00:08:04 2.2 Hellenistic Greek sources
00:08:14 2.2.1 Translations
00:08:32 2.3 Hellenistic Greek sources
00:10:00 3 Epithets of Hermes
00:10:10 3.1 Atlantiades
00:10:25 3.2 Kriophoros
00:10:48 3.3 Argeiphontes
00:11:24 3.4 Messenger and guide
00:12:23 3.5 Trade
00:12:44 3.6 Dolios
00:14:08 3.7 Thief
00:14:33 3.7.1 Patron of thieves
00:14:48 3.8 Additional
00:15:44 4 Worship and cult
00:17:33 4.1 Temples
00:19:14 4.2 Festival
00:19:50 5 Hermai/Herms
00:21:09 6 Hermes's possible offspring
00:21:19 6.1 Pan
00:21:41 6.2 Priapus
00:21:56 6.3 Autolycus
00:22:12 7 Extended list of Hermes's lovers and children
00:22:23 8 Genealogy
00:22:32 9 Art and iconography
00:26:23 10 In other religions
00:26:33 10.1 Christianity
00:26:51 11 Modern interpretation
00:27:00 11.1 Psychology
00:28:20 11.2 iHermes series/i essays
00:28:36 12 Hermes in popular culture
00:28:49 13 See also



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Hermes (; Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is the god of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, sports, travelers, and athletes in Ancient Greek religion and mythology; the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, he was the second youngest of the Olympian gods (Dionysus being the youngest).
Hermes was the emissary and messenger of the gods. Hermes was also "the divine trickster" and "the god of boundaries and the transgression of boundaries, ... the patron of herdsmen, thieves, graves, and heralds." He is described as moving freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine, and was the conductor of souls into the afterlife. He was also viewed as the protector and patron of roads and travelers.In some myths, he is a trickster and outwits other gods for his own satisfaction or for the sake of humankind. His attributes and symbols include the herma, the rooster, the tortoise, satchel or pouch, winged sandals, and winged cap. His main symbol is the Greek kerykeion or Latin caduceus, which appears in a form of two snakes wrapped around a winged staff with carvings of the other gods.In the Roman adaptation of the Greek pantheon (see interpretatio romana), Hermes is identified with the Roman god Mercury, who, though inherited from the Etruscans, developed many similar characteristics such as being the patron of commerce.