This figure offers the conniving Battos a robe to see if he would keep silent about a crime he witnessed, but he turned him to stone when he spoke.
This figure offers the conniving Battos a robe to see if he would keep silent about a crime he witnessed, but he turned him to stone when he spoke. This figure is told by Apollo to go visit the thriae at the end of the longest Homeric Hymn, which is dedicated to him. His cult center was at Mount Cilene, which is where he was born. He is the one who gives Odysseus moly to combat Circe, and he gives his winged sandals to Perseus to help him combat the gorgons. This god earned the epithet "Argeiphontes" after he slew a monster with a hundred eyes that was watching over Io. He is the son of Zeus and Maia. For 10 points, name this Greek messenger god, the analogue of Mercury.
This figure offers the conniving Battos a robe to see if he would keep silent about a crime he witnessed, but he turned him to stone when he spoke.
Hermes