CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Salmacis, Hermaphroditus, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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Pictures: hermes of olympia, marble, 4th c. bce. 5: when hermes asks calypso to let odysseus go, when he escorts priam to achilles and asks for the body of his dead son, hector, archetypal trickster/charming rogue. In an innocent way, he deceives: more playful than harmful. Iconography: travel cap (petasus), winged sandals, wand (caduceus) Hermes and the underworld: use curse tablets when you want someone to die or suffer, he"s the god that sends you to death, curse tablets facilitate that, you inscribe something on it. Invoked on curse tablets to facilitate communication between the living and the dead: hermes facilitates going back and forth between living and dead, festival: anthesteria (anthos=flower, possibly the bloom of the grape vine). The festival involves drinking contest, games, a sacred wedding and parades of masked people who are thought to represent the dead: slide 1 comes to deal with this, anthesteria mainly deals with dionysus. If asked which is the anthesteria connected to:
