• Ew. Put that away

    Hermes  Presenting Hera with the Head of Argus Argus Panoptes,Ἄργος Πανόπτης, or Argos was a hundred-eyed giant. The epithet Panoptes, reflects his mythic role, set...

  • The Hit on Argos

    In this painting Jacques Reattu describes the moment in which Mercury is about to kill Argos, the mythological shepherd, placed by Juno to guard Io,...

  • Hermes Riding Pegasus

    Hermes Riding Pegasus After the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, and the return of prosperity to France, Louis XIV entrusted his Superintendent...

  • Psychopomp

    In this painting by Michel-Martin Drölling, Hermes leads Eurydice into Hades, under the desperate gaze of Orpheus. Here the messenger of the gods plays the...

  • Apollo and Hermes

    Apollo and Hermes  To invent the lyre, Hermes killed a tortoise and scooped the flesh out of its shell. Then, honoring the Pleiades, he stretched...

  • Hermes

    Hermes Ερμής Mercury the Oratore Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 528 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) “Apollon sware also [to Hermes]...

  • Overrated Greek gods

    Made by Mason Erickson. Do you agree with the chart? Overrated. It’s not necessarity bad, but too many people like it. Apollo, Hades. Good. It’s...