HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tall Tale, Omen
10 Oct 2018
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Hermes son of zeus and maia. A bringer of dreams, watcher by nights. A robber, a cattle driver, a thief at the gates. He is the father of the trickster god pan. Hermes kills argus (the watchman with many eyes), argei phontes argus killer . When hermes is first born, the first thing he wants to do is get going. As a teen boy, a way to prove yourself was stealing someone else"s cattle. Hermes (still young) see"s a lyre (tortoise), and thinks its good omen, then profit. The only song hermes knows to sing is about his birth. Hermes wants to try flesh, so he goes off to find apollo, by stealing his cattle and walks backwards to cover his tracks. Hermes can pass through boundaries without being detected. Hermes later comes home, pretending to sleep. Apollo tries to find his cattle; he finds the only human who knows what happened the old man.
