It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"They say he [#Hermes] was responsible for profit and an overseer of the businesses: consequently they set up the statue of him weighing a purse."
Suidas s.v. Hermes
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.
🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Mosaic of #Hermes-Mercurius, easily recognisable by the wings on his head, representing the planet Mercury or the fourth day of the ancient Roman week, diēs Mercuriī (Wednesday).
🏛 #Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, #Spain
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes as a UPS delivery man, a visual joke from the music video of Hermes' #DestripandoLaHistoria song by Spanish musicians and animators Pascu and Rodri. The song retells many of Hermes' myths like the theft of Apollo's cows, the slaying of Argos, and the birth of Orion.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Baby #Dionysos sitting on the lap of his big brother #Hermes is given to the #satyr Tropheus and the nymphs of Nysa. Also in the scene are Anatrophe (“upbringing”), as well as Ambrosia and Nektar (food and drink of the gods).
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This delightful figure of the #Roman god Mercurius is holding a purse & has a winged feet and a winged helmet. He protected the pay of Roman soldiers, so this figure may have belonged to a soldier.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"They say he [#Hermes] was responsible for #profit and an overseer of the businesses: consequently they set up the statue of him weighing a purse." #Suidas, Byzantine Greek lexicon, 10th century CE
🏛️ Hermes, Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis, Greece
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Meet this #silver figurine of Hermes-Mercurius, holding his iconic kerykeion or caduceus staff in his left. With the two snakes winding around it, it has been mistaken for the Rod of Asklepios, the symbol of medicine, when in truth the caduceus is the symbol of commerce.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Terracotta pyxis showing the Judgement of Paris. Paris is seated on a rock with #Hermes approaching him from the left. The goddesses Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena are depicted on the opposite side not shown here.
🏛️ Terracotta pyxis with a white-ground vase painting dated 465–460 BCE. Today in the Met, New York
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Mercurius and #Hermes are not only the messengers of the gods, but the gods of merchants and thieves as well. Here, Mercurius is depicted with his winged hat holding a purse to signify his connection with wealth & success in business.
🏛️ Hermes-Mercurius, Roman bronze figurine, dated 1st-3rd century CE, private collection
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Marble sculpture of #Hermes. After rediscovery in 1771 near #Rome, he was displayed at Lansdowne House in London. The sculpture's right leg and the palm tree originally came from a different ancient statue.
🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE Roman copy of a 4th century BCE Greek original, today in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This little bronze statuette depicts the #Mercurius, the Roman God of Trade and messenger of the gods. He is associated with the Greek god #Hermes and the Etruscan god #Turms,
🏛️ 1st century CE bronze statuette of the Roman God Mercurius, Southern Italy
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes in his iconic winged sandals and his kerykeion staff under one arm holds a goat by the horns. He wears a richly decorated cloak clasped in front and a petasos, his traveller's hat, around his neck. Two beaded pieces of jewellery decorate the god's chest and thigh, a type of jewellery most commonly associated with Eros and Aphrodite.
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, who is thought to have loved him, talaria and petasus, and, in addition, a helmet which kept its wearer from being seen by an enemy."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.12
🏛️ #Perseus & #Hermes, Bell Krater, dated 400-375-BCE, Collection Jatta, LlMC VII
🏛️ Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes from the Greek colony of Tarentine in Southern Italy, 4th century BCE. Today in the MET, New York.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This is the best preserved of the column drums carved in relief. It shows a youthful winged #Thanatos (death), a draped woman, and a figure of #Hermes Psychopompos, leader of souls to the underworld.
🏛️ From the south-west corner of the later temple of Artemis, Ephesos. Dated ca. 325-300 BCE. Today in the British Museum.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Sing, Muse, of Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, lord of Kyllene and Arkadia rich in flocks, the luck-bringing messenger of the gods whom Maia bare, the rich-tressed Nymphe, when she was joined in love with Zeus."
Homeric Hymn 4
🎨 #Hermes on a roof in Chalkis, Euboea, Greece 1937 Photo by Herbert List