CLAS104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Petasos, Odysseus, Psych
26 Aug 2016
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Son of zeus and maia (one of the pleiades, daughter of atlas and pleione). The story is that, in her modesty, maia shunned the company of the gods and instead chose to live in a shadowy cave, where at night while hera was sleeping, zeus made love to her: attributes. 2: winged boots (talaria) travels a lot. B: divine messenger that especially zeus calls on. Often hermes is found to be helping heroes. Seen as a messenger from zeus helping to accomplish zeus" will. Hermes above all others as a trickster and he helped others trick people, like prometheus. Merchants had to be clever, travel like thieves, and weren"t always honest. Usually a stone statue with a head and a erect cock. The idea is that hermes will protect the boundary. Stories: birth of hermes is born with all his powers, he is a prodigy. Born in his mothers cave and right away gets himself into trouble.
