In Aristophanes ' Peace, when War has trapped Peace ( Εἰρήνη Eirene ) in a deep pit, Hermes comes to give aid: " Now, oh Greeks!

The god Hermes delivers a speech blaming the Peloponnesian War on Pericles and Cleon ( lines 603-48 ) and this was an argument that Aristophanes had already promoted in earlier plays ( e. g. The Acharnians 514-40 and The Knights 792-809 ).

Hermes then tells the gathering why Peace had left them many years earlier-she had been driven away by politicians who were profiting from the war.

Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo.

Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.

Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia.

The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Maia wrapped the infant in blankets but Hermes escaped while she was asleep.

Hermes ran to Thessaly, where Apollo was grazing his cattle.

The infant Hermes stole a number of his cows and took them to a cave in the woods near Pylos, covering their tracks.

Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already replaced himself in the blankets she had wrapped him in, so Maia refused to believe Apollo's claim.

Hermes then began to play music on the lyre he had invented.

Hermes would leave the soul on the banks of the River Styx, the river between life and death.

* In the Odyssey, Calypso is described as having " spread a table with ambrosia and set it by Hermes, and mixed the rosy-red nectar.

" It is ambiguous whether he means the ambrosia itself is rosy-red, or if he is describing a rosy-red nectar Hermes drinks along with the ambrosia.

* In the myth of Psyche and Eros, Psyche is given ambrosia by Hermes upon her completion of the quests set by Aphrodite and her acceptance on Olympus.

According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).

The hymn to Hermes, fr308 ( b ), was quoted by Hephaestion ( grammarian ) and both he and Libanius, the rhetorician, quoted the first two lines of fr. 350, celebrating the return from Babylon of Alcaeus ' brother.

Herm of Hermes, Roman copy of a late 5th century BC original, the forefront inscription states the herm was made by Alcamenes and placed infront of the gates of Pergamon, Istanbul Archaeology Museums | Istanbul Museums.

At Pergamum there was discovered in 1903 a Hellenistic copy of the head of the Hermes " Propylaeus " of Alcamenes.

She was beloved by two gods, Hermes and Apollo, and boasted that she was prettier than Artemis because she made two gods fall in love with her at once.

However, some versions of this myth say Apollo and Hermes protected her from Artemis ' wrath.

In later times, during the Ptolemaic period, Anubis was merged with the Greek god Hermes, becoming Hermanubis.

St. Paul appears as the preaching missionary ( 13: 16 ; 14: 8-9, 19-20 ), whence the Lystrans regarded him as Hermes, St. Barnabas as Zeus ( 14: 12 ).

Odysseus set out to rescue his men, but was intercepted by his great grandfather, Hermes, who had been sent by Athena.

A Mycenaean Greek reference found on a Linear B clay tablet at Pylos to a deity or semi-deity called TI-RI-SE-RO-E, Trisheros ( the " thrice or triple hero ") could be connected to the later epithet " thrice wise " " Trismegistos ", applied to Hermes / Thoth.

Idris / Hermes was termed " Thrice-Wise " Hermes Trismegistus because he had a threefold origin: the first Hermes, comparable to Thoth, was a " civilizing hero ," an initiator into the mysteries of the divine science and wisdom that animate the world: he carved the principles of this sacred science in hieroglyphs.

The fact that Hermes was worshipped in Samothrace under the name of Cadmus or Cadmilus seems to show that the Theban Cadmus was interpreted as an ancestral Theban hero corresponding to the Samothracian.

In Greek mythology, Myrtilus () was a divine hero, a son of Hermes on Theobule ( or Myrto, an Amazon, or Phaethusa, daughter of Danaus, or Clymene, or Clytie, or Cleobule ), and charioteer of King Oenomaus of Pisa in Elis, on the northwest coast of the Peloponnesus.

In Greek mythology Abderus or Abderos () was a divine hero, reputed a son of Hermes by some accounts, and eponym of Abdera, Thrace.

The ancient Greek word kibisis, said to describe the sack carried by the god Hermes and the sack in which the mythical hero Perseus carried the decapitated head of the monster Medusa, has been typically translated as " wallet ".

According with the legend, Nora was founded by a group of Iberians led by Norax, a mythological hero son of Eriteide and the god Hermes.

Insignia are mainly heads of mythological characters or depictions of mythological beasts arranged in a symbolic motif: Apollo, Zeus, Janus, Athena, Hermes, griffin, gorgon, sphinx, hippocamp, bull, snake, eagle, or other creatures who had symbolic significance.

Martial wrote that " Hermes gladiator who always drew the crowds means riches for the ticket scalpers ".

King Priam himself soon comes to claim the body, and Hermes grants him safe passage by casting a charm that will make anyone who looks at him fall asleep.

Taking this into consideration, he was thus associated with Amenhotep son of Hapu, who was another deified architect, in the region of Thebes where they were worshipped as " brothers " in temples dedicated to Thot and later in Hermopolis following the syncretist concept of Hermes-Thot, a concept that led to another syncretic belief, that of Hermes Trismegistus and hermeticism.

: Hermes bringing to Paris the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: ' Here is Hermes, who is showing to Paris, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite.

* Rhene of Mount Cyllene, who consorted with both Hermes and Oileus

She is persuaded to release him by Odysseus ' great-grandfather, the messenger god Hermes, who has been sent by Zeus in response to Athena's plea.

Released by the intercession of his patroness Athena, through the aid of Hermes, he departs, but his raft is destroyed by his divine enemy Poseidon, who is angry because Odysseus blinded his son, Polyphemus.

Pseudo-Apollodorus moreover clarifies a cryptic statement ( 1026 – 29 ) made by Hermes in Prometheus Bound, identifying the centaur Chiron as the one who would take on Prometheus ' suffering and die in his place.

In fact Pegasus is a late addition to the story of Perseus, who flew on his own with the sandals loaned him by Hermes.

Persephone was released by Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, but she was obliged to spend four months of a year in the underworld, and the remaining two thirds with the gods above.

Magi belong to one of the houses of the Order of Hermes, a society founded by the wizard Bonisagus who created a consistent way to describe magic, allowing Magi to share information, and the Parma Magica, a magical shield which allows a measure of protection against hostile magics ( and, in some cases, non-hostile magics as well ) which allowed Magi to trust each other.

The myth of Io must have been well known to Homer, who often calls Hermes Hermes Argeiphontes, " Hermes Argus-slayer.

Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, ( six or four according to the telling ) which forced her to return to the underworld for some months each year.

) The wings at the head of the staff identified it as belonging to the winged messenger, Hermes, the Roman Mercury, who was the god of magic, diplomacy and rhetoric, of inventions and discoveries, the protector both of merchants and that allied occupation, to the mythographers ' view, of thieves.

" According to choreographer Hermes Pan, Astaire lost his temper and yelled at Rogers, who promptly burst into tears, whereupon her mother, Lela, " came charging at him like a mother rhinoceros protecting her young.

A gondola parade is followed by the entry of a dancing chorus who perform a series of ballroom poses and rippling-pattern routines choroeographed by Hermes Pan.

Later sources state either that it was brought to Leda by a shepherd who discovered it in a grove in Attica, or that it was dropped into her lap by Hermes.

Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator Hermes Pan, both have acknowledged Rogers's input and have also testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain, as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year.

Cicero noted several individuals referred to as " Hermes ": " the fifth, who is worshipped by the people of Pheneus Arcadia, is said to have killed Argus, and for this reason to have fled to Egypt, and to have given the Egyptians their laws and alphabet: he it is whom the Egyptians call Theyt.

" The most likely interpretation of this passage is as two variants on the same syncretism of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth ( or sometimes other gods ); the one viewed from the Greek-Arcadian perspective ( the fifth, who went from Greece to Egypt ), the other viewed from the Egyptian perspective ( the fourth, where Hermes turns out " actually " to have been a " son of the Nile ," i. e. a native god ).