Hermes Flashcards
What group did Maia belong to?
The Pleiades
Who were the parents of Hermes?
Maia and Zeus
Where did Maia live?
Mount Cyllene
At noon of his first day on earth he stepped outside of the cave…
Hermes
What did Hermes use for the strings of the lyre?
sheep guts
After being born what was the first thing Hermes encountered?
a tortoise
Where do the gods pasture their cattle?
Pieria
How did Hermes confuse the trail of the cattle he stole?
He drove the cattle backwards
Whose cattle did Hermes steal?
Apollo’s
Who stole Apollo’s cattle?
hermes
Who, obscuring his footprints by wearing sandals of brushwood…
Hermes
Who did Hermes turn to stone?
Battus
Who was turned to stone for double dealing?
Battus
What was battus transformed into?
stone
Who invented fire?
Hermes
What river did Hermes get to with the cattle?
Alpheius
Which giant did Hermes kill?
Hippolytus
Who stole Zeus’s sinews?
Hermes and Aegipan
Hiding from Typhoeus, what did Hermes turn into?
an ibis
Who rescued the infant Dionysus from the flames that had destroyed Semele?
Hermes
Hermes + Clytie?
Myrtilus
Polymele + Hermes?
Eudorus
Antineira + Hermes?
Erytus and Echion
Who did Hermes fall in love with who could run faster than him?
Apemosyne
What brother of Apemosyne…
Althaemenes
Hermes + Phylodameia?
Pharis
Which of cecrop’s daughters did Hermes fall in love with?
Herse
Which of cecrops’s daughters did Hermes turn to stone?
Agraulus
Hermes + Herse?
Cephalus
Hermes + chione?
Autolycus
Who is the Petasus most associated with?
Hermes
Who invented Astronomy?
hermes
What was Hermes’s planet called?
Stilbon
