Hermes

And Athena said, "Father, son of Kronos, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Odysseus should get home, we should first send Hermes to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to have his homecoming [ nostos].

for I sent Hermes to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home.

When he had thus spoken, he said to his son Hermes, "Hermes, you are our messenger, go therefore and tell Calypso we have decreed that poor Odysseus is to return home [ nostos].

Zeus gave it to Hermes, slayer of Argos, guide and guardian.

Ares would have then perished had not fair Eeriboia, stepmother to the sons of Aloeus, told Hermes, who stole him away when he was already well-nigh worn out by the severity of his bondage.

He sprang towards Akamas, but Akamas did not stand his ground, and he killed Ilioneus son of the rich flock-master Phorbas, whom Hermes had favored and endowed with greater wealth than any other of the Trojans.

"To Zeus the Atlantid Maia bore glorious Hermes, the herald of the immortals, having mounted the holy bed;

But there were also, among the Egyptians, men who were once living and afterward became gods by human opinion:

They say that he must take up two books out of those of Hermes, of which one contains hymns of the gods, the second a reckoning of the kingly life.

" Are they not, in truth, prodigious, who turn to stones, and then, moreover, set them up before their gates as though they were active, worshipping Hermes as a god and setting up Agyieus as a doorkeeper?

Why mention Nicagoras — he was a Zeleite by birth, of the times of Alexander — Hermes was Nicagoras called, and he used the dress of Hermes, as he himself testifies?

For what do you think, O men, the Tychon-Hermes is, and that of Andocides, and the Maimed one?

And Hermes, having come to Thebes, where Heracles in his youth was being reared, told him who he was and by whom he had been sent, and, taking him, led him by a road untold and untrodden by men, until he came to a certain conspicuous and very lofty peak of a mountain, on its outer sides terribly sheer with upright crags and a deep ravine, round which a river ran in a circle, giving up much noise a …

And when he had looked his fill upon these things too, Hermes asked him which of the two states pleased him, and which of the two women.

And when he saw that he wished to rule, not from desire of pleasures or of greedy gains — for the sake of which most men crave it — but in order to do good to as many men and in as many ways as he could, knowing his nature to be noble, yet suspecting how much of him was mortal, and that there were many wicked examples among men of luxury and license, and that many turn aside, against his will, the …

Dramatis Personae Strepsiades Phidippides Servant of Strepsiades Disciples of Socrates Socrates Chorus of Clouds Just Cause Unjust Cause Pasias Amynias Witness Chaerephon Hermes

But O dear Hermes, by no means be wroth with me, nor destroy me;

Hermes:

Hermes caught me up in the folds of the air and hid me in a cloud—for Zeus was not neglectful of me—and he set me down here in the house of Proteus, having selected the most self-controlled of all mankind, so that I might keep my bed pure for Menelaos.

But Hera, the holy beloved of Zeus on her golden throne, sent the swift-footed son of Maia.

The son of Zeus, of Zeus, brought me to the Nile.

Atlas, who bears upon his brazen back the pressure of the sky, ancient dwelling of the gods, begat Maia from a daughter of one of those gods, and she bare me Hermes to mighty Zeus, to be the servant of the powers divine.

there did Phoebus force his love on Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, beneath the rock of Pallas, northward of Athens’ steep realm, called Macrae by the kings of Attica.

Meantime Creusa, mother of this youth, is wedded to Xuthus;

Maia’s son Hermes, who has shrouded the guile in darkness, leads him right to his goal and delays no longer.

O Hermes of the shades!

When Euphiletus saw my condition, he informed the others that I had consented to join them and had promised him to mutilate the Hermes next to the shrine of Phorbas as my share in the escapade.

Hermes is a god and has wings and flies, and so do many other gods.

May Hermes in the nether world, and Hades, too, give thee a kindly welcome!

what sorrows did the son of Zeus and Maia herald, in the day he came to Ida’s glen, guiding that fair young trio of goddesses, all girded for the fray in bitter rivalry about their beauty, to the shepherd’s fold, where dwelt the youthful herdsman all alone by the hearth of his lonely hut.

on the surrounding base of the shield’s rim, Perseus the throat-cutter, over the sea with winged sandals, was holding the Gorgon’s body, with Hermes, Zeus’ messenger, the rustic son of Maia.

Here one day came Pallas and Cypris of the subtle heart, Hera too and Hermes messenger of Zeus;

Now Maian Hermes guide thee to thy end

The Athenians, then, were the first Greeks to make ithyphallic images of Hermes, and they did this because the Pelasgians taught them.

Samothrace was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the Samothracians take their rites.

For the Athenians were then already counted as Greeks when the Pelasgians came to live in the land with them and thereby began to be considered as Greeks.

And Maia, the daughter of Atlas, bore to Zeus glorious Hermes, the herald of the deathless gods, for she went up into his holy bed.

Also the Guide, the Slayer of Argus, contrived within her lies and crafty words and a deceitful nature at the will of loud thundering Zeus, and the Herald of the gods put speech in her.

And he charged Hermes the guide, the Slayer of Argus, to put in her a shameless mind and a deceitful nature.

But when he had finished the sheer, hopeless snare, the Father sent glorious Argus-Slayer, the swift messenger of the gods, to take it to Epimetheus as a gift.

I sing of Cyllenian Hermes, the Slayer of Argus, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, luck-bringing messenger of the deathless gods.

Hail, Hermes, giver of grace, guide, and giver of good things!

They sing of the blessed gods and high Olympus and choose to tell of such an one as luck-bringing Hermes above the rest, how he is the swift messenger of all the gods, and how he came to Arcadia, the land of many springs and mother of flocks, there where his sacred place is as god of Cyllene.

Then luck-bringing Hermes received him and took him in his arms:

And Hermes brought them to the place where rich-crowned Demeter was staying and checked them before her fragrant temple.

And Hermes obeyed, and leaving the house of Olympus, straightway sprang down with speed to the hidden places of the earth.

Now when all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer heard this, he sent the Slayer of Argus whose wand is of gold to Erebus, so that having won over Hades with soft words, he might lead forth chaste Persephone to the light from the misty gloom to join the gods, and that her mother might see her with her eyes and cease from her anger.

And you, Slayer of Argus, Son of Zeus and Maia, messenger of the blessed gods, bearer of the golden rod, giver of good, be favorable and help us, you and Hestia, the worshipful and dear.

Hail, Daughter of Cronos, and you also, Hermes, bearer of the golden rod!

Muse, sing of Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, the luck-bringing messenger of the immortals whom Maia bare, the rich-tressed nymph, when she was joined in love with Zeus,

And from heaven father Zeus himself gave confirmation to his words, and commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord over all birds of omen and grim-eyed lions, and boars with gleaming tusks, and over dogs and all flocks that the wide earth nourishes, and over all sheep;

” --> With such words they spoke together, the son of Zeus who holds the aegis, and the lady Maia.