CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homeric Hymns, Carpentry, Golden Fleece

• School: McGill University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 203
• Professor: Margaret Palczynski

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Clas 203 lecture 13 hermes, hestia, athena. Herma: stone heap marker (trail marker, marker for where land borders were, etc) God of movement, going from here to there. >guides the newly separated soul of dead person down to hades. >man covered in eyes never closed all at once always saw everything. Zeus takes interest, surrounds them in a mist so he can sleep with her (hidden from hera) She goes to see what"s going on. Zeus panics and turns ion into a cow. Hera thinks it"s a gift because cows are holy to her and sets argus to the cow. Zeus sends hermes to kill argys to rescue io. Hermes cannot change io back to human because one god cannot undo another has done guard what. Caduceus (herald"s wand, a wand around which 2 snakes are curling) As a baby, he gets bored (the afternoon after birth)