Week 9

Question 1

pyschopompos

Answer 1

guide of souls to the realm of hades

Question 2

petasus

Answer 2

hermes travelers hat

Question 3

talaria

Answer 3

hermes sandals

Question 4

caduceus

Answer 4

herald’s wand, 2 snakes intertwined with wings

Question 5

precocius child hermes

Answer 5

born at dawn, invents the lyre and steals apollo cattle

Question 6

herms

Answer 6

statues that were symbols of fertility and intended to bring prosperity and luck, marked boundaries

Question 7

hermaphroditus

Answer 7

(ovid) hermaphroditus was the son of hermes and aphrodite, who was propsitioned by the lazy naaid salmacis. He rejects her, and she assualts him in her pool, and asks the gods to never seperate them. When they agree hermaphroditus begs the gods to curse anyone else that comes into this pool with the same fate

Question 8

kakoi

Answer 8

“bad guys” hermes stands for them

Question 9

aristoi

Answer 9

“aristocrats” apollo stands for them

Question 10

archetypal trickster

Answer 10

hermes in his homeric hymn

Question 11

differences between hermes and apollo

Answer 11

apollo god of light, hermes opperates in darkeness
apollo truth and justice, hermes prince of thieves

Question 12

who does hermes honour first with his song

Answer 12

mmenosyne, because she honoured him as one of her own

Question 13

when does hermes make his sandlas

Answer 13

after he steals cattle

Question 14

hermes birth

Answer 14

born at dawn, lyre at midday, evening stealing cattle

Question 15

hermes functions

Answer 15

messenger god, bringer of luck, protector of merchants, etc.