CLAS104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Petasos, Hermes
16 Apr 2016
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Stories: essence: mobility and mental agility physical movement,transition and communication. Invents the lyre (mental mobility) steals apollo"s cattle (thieves) prosper through travel, trade and theft reconciled to apollo creator and crosses of boundaries. Lies cleverly to save himself (trickster) intermediary between two different worlds guide of souls (psychopompus) Herald"s wand (caduceus) two snakes entwined snakes are a symbok of fertility god connected with underworld serpents resemble new life dueto skin shed winged boots (talaria), hat and his wand: concerns. *statues of him resemble prosperity: divine messenger (human interactions, thieves, boundaries bring mortals across the barrier of the underworld (psychopompus) unite the attribute of both sexes but transgresses the limitations of gender messenger of zeus.
