The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

" And that would have been the end of Ares and his appetite for war, if the beautiful Eriboea, the young giants ' stepmother, had not told Hermes what they had done ," Dione related ( Iliad 5. 385 – 391 ).

He told Baucis and Philemon to climb the mountain with him and Hermes, not to turn back until they reached the top.

There Apemosyne was seduced by the god Hermes, but when Apemosyne told Althaemenes this, Althaemenes did not believe her and kicked Apemosyne to death.

As the story is told, this tablet was found by Alexander the Great at Hebron supposedly in the tomb of Hermes.

Distraught, Orfeu looks for Eurydice at the office of Missing Persons, although Hermes has told him she is dead.

Zeus gave the apple to Hermes and told him to deliver it to Paris and tell him that the goddesses would accept his decision without argument.

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

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.

Hermes warned Odysseus about Circe and gave Odysseus a drug called moly which gave him resistance to Circe ’ s magic.

Washed ashore on the island of Calypso, he was compelled to remain there as her lover until she was ordered by Zeus via Hermes to release Odysseus.

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.

His patron goddess Athena asks Zeus to order the release of Odysseus from the island, and Zeus sends the messenger Hermes, to tell Calypso to set Odysseus free, for it was not his destiny to live with her forever.

Athena complained about Calypso's actions to Zeus, who sent the messenger Hermes to Ogygia to order Calypso to release Odysseus.

Of course Odysseus gets a heads up about Circe's magic from Hermes ( Freddy Douglas ).

When it comes to the latest year, Hermes arrives ends up telling Calypso to release Odysseus and she provides him with a raft to get to Ithica.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

The Israeli Air Force, which operates a squadron of Hermes 450s out of Palmachim Airbase south of Tel Aviv, has adapted the Hermes 450 for use as an assault UAV, reportedly equipping it with two Hellfire missiles or, according to various sources, two Rafael-made missiles.

Many of the flats had had their heating and sanitation systems destroyed by the council to prevent their use as drug dens, others had indeed been taken over by heroin users and still others had pigeons making nests out of asbestos, with the level in flats in Hermes and Chantry Points well above safe norms.

The letter following the category and year identifies the planet ( Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune ; although no occurrence of the other planets is expected, Mars and Mercury are disambiguated through the use of Hermes for the latter ).

However, Hermes ' severed head comes to good use when its brainwaves are used to guide the Earth fleet to destroy the Scammer ships.

Anat is also presumably the goddess whom Sanchuniathon calls Athene, a daughter of El, mother unnamed, who with Hermes ( that is Thoth ) counselled El on the making of a sickle and a spear of iron, presumably to use against his father Uranus.

The European Space Agency's Hermes and the Russian Buran space planes would also have made use of them if they had ever flown with crews.

One of the primary goals of the joint venture will be to promote the introduction and use of Elbit Systems Hermes 450 UAV in the service of the Brazilian Air Force.

Rooted in classical mythology and associated with the Greek god Hermes, the US Army's long-standing use of the caduceus has made it a well known emblem of physicians and medical skill in the United States.

If I may but win these, I will propitiate Hermes and the holy Muses,

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.

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.

He designed Hermes ' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles ' armor, Heracles ' bronze clappers, Helios ' chariot ( and one for himself, to be used on account of his lameness ), the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros ' bow and arrows.

Some authorities regard him as a contemporary of Abraham, and some Jewish traditions go so far as to claim that Abraham acquired a portion of his mystical knowledge from Hermes himself ( Kybalion ).

He was the primordial king in the Peloponnesus, authorized by Zeus: " Formerly Zeus himself had ruled over men, but Hermes created a confusion of human speech, which spoiled Zeus ' pleasure in this Rule ".

Hermes, himself the kēryx of the gods, was their patron and carried the caduceus, the herald ’ s staff .< ref > Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012.

According to tradition, he was the son of Hermes and a nymph, despite which Daphnis himself was mortal.

In the second, Pelops, still unsure of himself ( or alternatively, Hippodamia herself ) and of the winged horses and chariot of divine provenance he had secured, convinced Oenomaus ' charioteer, Myrtilus, a son of Hermes, to help him win.

In an episode that was added to the simple heroic chariot race, Pelops, still unsure of himself ( or alternatively, Hippodamia herself ), convinced Oenomaus ' charioteer, Myrtilus, a son of Hermes, to help him win.

This origin was referred to on a coin of the gens, the obverse of which depicts the head of Mercury or Hermes, the ancestor of Ulysses, and the reverse Ulysses himself, clad in the humble disguise he assumed to avoid being recognized by the suitors of Penelope.

In another episode, he tries to get Hermes Conrad to kill himself in a way that would not damage his liver because " other people need it ".

He is an uptight workaholic ( Hermes is disappointed by the fact that he is anal only 78. 36 % of the time and became upset when he would not allow himself to have Valentine's Day off ).

In the Season 7 episode " The Six Million Dollar Mon ," Hermes ' focus on productivity at the office leads him to fire himself after an annual performance evaluation, due to all the time he has to spend on it.

" After he was talked out of killing himself in " How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back " he was too distraught to rhyme, merely whimpering " Sweet something of ... someplace ".

This event traumatized Hermes and he could not bring himself to limbo again until decades later, when he found it necessary to slide under a nearly-closed door aboard the space cruise ship Titanic in order to save the lives of himself and his co-workers.

Astaire, with Hermes Pan's help, creates fabulous numbers – for himself and his partner.

Plutarch relates that the name of the river was originally Astraeus but was changed after Caicus, a son of Hermes, threw himself into it after sleeping with his sister Alcippe.

Hermes himself was very largely under the influence of the Kantian and Fichtean ideas, and though in the philosophical portion of his Einleitung he criticizes both these thinkers severely, rejects their doctrine of the moral law as the sole guarantee for the existence of God, and condemns their restricted view of the possibility and nature of revelation, enough remained of purely speculative material to render his system obnoxious to his church.

Hermes appears suddenly and the head orders him to kill Mandrake, but Hermes tells him to do it himself before leaving.

The works of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer are referred to approvingly in The Kybalion as showing an understanding of Hermetic Principles ; and Spencer himself is eulogised as a reincarnation of the 5th Century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus or Hermes ; who is in turn described as being a reincarnation of a still more ancient, Egyptian philosopher: No other writers are similarly referenced or endorsed within the text.