CLST 2090 : Exam 2 Notes
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Hermes recall that hermes gave pandora the character of a thief and the mind of a bitch; but he is more complicated. Hermes is the god of good luck and the god of businessmen and thieves. Hit showrooms, it was ugly, lost a fortune the ford edsel. Hermes had not blessed the venture, so no good luck: late 50"s university students frequent a store selling meat pies in aluminum pans, which the students would throw back in forth. from their fathers and, with no knowledge and no experience, invented the frisbee. According to the greeks, their venture had been blessed by hermes. Hermes is also the god of the practical joke. This is a form of power the greeks didn"t understand when something happened over which they could not stop laughing. You have no control, humor takes you over. So, there is a god of the practical joke since they had no control and figured it must be supernatural.
