It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This delightful figure of the #Roman god #Mercury is holding a purse and he has winged feet and wears his winged helmet. He was seen as protecting the pay of Roman soldiers, so this figure may have belonged to a soldier.
May he protect your wages too!
🏛 Hermes-Mercurius found in Barnhill, Perth, #Scotland
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
A premature #PhallusThursday for good luck in this #NewYears week: a young man carrying a sacrificial basket passes by a herm, a simple statue of #Hermes with a head and a #phallus at the appropriate height. He gives the phallus a rub for good luck. May your #NewYear2024 be happy and full of joy!
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"#Mercurius [Hermes] snatched him from the fire and gave him to Nysus [Seilenos] to be reared. In Greek he is called #Dionysos."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 179
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Indeed they would have chopt up little Bakkhos [#Dionysos] a baby still piecemeal in the distracted flood of their vagabond madness, had not #Hermes come on wing and stolen Bakkhos again with a robber's untracked footsteps."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9.28
🏛 Hermes and baby Dionysos, detail of a red-figure krater. Today in the Musée du Louvre.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Zeus taking up the child [Dionysos], handed it over to #Hermes, and ordered him to take it to the cave in Nysa, which lay between Phoenicia and Neilos [the River Nile]."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.2.3
🏛 Birth of #Dionysos from #Zeus' thigh, Roman work of the 2nd century after a Greek original of the late 4th century BCE, Vatican Museum
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Happy #SaintNicholasDay. What if Hermes brought the gifts? Would he gives us what we want, what we need, or what the mischievous god finds the most funny?
🏛 #Hermes gives to mankind from D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
Today's music: some classical (Debussy) but mostly I woke up with St. Vincent in my head so I listened to her 2015 album on the commute and later while working. Then segued into Father John Misty. Good times.
Visited new-to-me pokestops and a good gym battle after my afternoon trip to the pharmacy!
Started prep on the #hauntology paper I swore I wasn't going to present on Tuesday and am now quite academically pleased with myself.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Now when the dead have come to the place where each is led by his daimon i.e. [#Hermes], first they are judged and sentenced, as they have lived well and piously, or not. And those who are found to have lived neither well nor ill, go to the Acheron." #Plato, Phaedros 112e
🏛 Hermes guides the soul of a dead woman to #Charon, attic lecythus, dated 450 BCE
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"[Zeus] commanded that glorious Hermes should be lord over all birds of prey and grim-eyed lions, and boars with gleaming tusks, and over [herder's] dogs and all the herds and flocks that the wide earth nourishes, and over all sheep."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 560
🏛 Hermes-Mercurius, marble relief made by Artus Quellinus in the 17th century CE.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"They say he [#Hermes] was responsible for profit and an overseer of the businesses: consequently they set up the statue of him weighing a purse."
Suidas s.v. Hermes
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.
🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens
It didn't take me too long to get home from work today.
A clean home is always nice.
It's a rather desperate week in terms of getting stuff done + academic deadlines as always, but getting stuff done always give me an inner glow of satisfaction. That whole eudaimonia + arete cocktail thingo.
Finally managed to make my Salmon Kedgeree -- and had it both for breakfast and for dinner. Delish!
Hearing back from two of the speakers I invited for two separate events, which brings me much closer to finalising the programme nitty-gritty for both webinars.
Clearing some more things off the to-do list. Although the list seems to go on for miles. And miles.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Mosaic of #Hermes-Mercurius, easily recognisable by the wings on his head, representing the planet Mercury or the fourth day of the ancient Roman week, diēs Mercuriī (Wednesday).
🏛 #Mercurius as Planet Mercury in The House of the Planetarium, Italica, #Spain