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    The Atlas·Objects

    Hermae

    object · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    the Hermae · the Mercuries · Hermes · images · sacred things

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    The Mercuries“Hermae”2 mentions

    History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

    but search was made for them, with great rewards for information offered at the public expense.
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    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Statues of Hermes set up throughout Athens, whose mass mutilation on the eve of the Sicilian expedition triggers a citywide scandal and investigation.

    but search was made for them, with great rewards for information offered at the public expense.
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    for it was considered to be an omen of the expedition, and also to have been done on the strength of a conspiracy for bringing about a revolution, and for putting down the democracy.
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    Information therefore was given by some naturalized aliens, and slaves who were in personal attendance on their masters, though not at all respecting the Mercuries, yet of certain mutilations of other images which had before been perpetrated by some young men in a drunken frolic:
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    On the MysteriesClassical · Greek

    Sacred images whose mutilation caused the inquiry.

    Next comes the mutilation of the images and the denunciation of those responsible.
    on the mysteries
    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.
    on the mysteries
    From Megara he informed the Council that if immunity were granted him, he was prepared not only to lodge an information with regard to the Mysteries—as one of the participants, he would reveal the names of his companions—but he would also tell what he knew of the mutilation of the Hermae.
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    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Statues of Hermes at Athens carved in the likeness of Alcibiades.

    And when Phryne the Thespian courtesan was in her bloom, all the painters reproduced the images of Aphrodite to the beauty of Phryne, just as again the stone-cutters at Athens likened the Hermae to Alcibiades.
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    Against MeidiasClassical · Greek

    Sacred herm statues whose mutilation is invoked as sacrilege.

    All acts of sacrilege, I suppose, ought to excite the same indignation, but is not complete destruction of sacred things just as sacrilegious as their mutilation?
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