It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

#Hermes in his iconic winged sandals and his kerykeion staff under one arm holds a goat by the horns. He wears a richly decorated cloak clasped in front and a petasos, his traveller's hat, around his neck. Two beaded pieces of jewellery decorate the god's chest and thigh, a type of jewellery most commonly associated with Eros and Aphrodite.

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"Hermes, beloved of Polydeukes, one of the Dioskouroi, made him a gift of Dotor, the Thessalian horse."

Ptolemaios Chennos, New History

🏛️ #Hermes, Polydeukes, #Satyr or #Silenos, Italic Stamnos, 400–350 BCE. Today in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"My own opinion is that #Hermes gave Amphion these gifts, both the [magical] lyre and the headband, because he was overcome by love for him.
And the chlamys he wears, perhaps that also came from Hermes; for its colour does not remain the same but changes and takes on all the hues of the rainbow."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1.10

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"When sent by Polydectes, son of Magnes, to the Gorgones, he received from #Mercurius, who is thought to have loved him, talaria and petasus, and, in addition, a helmet which kept its wearer from being seen by an enemy."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.12

🏛️ #Perseus & #Hermes, Bell Krater, dated 400-375-BCE, Collection Jatta, LlMC VII

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

A little late because my pc wouldn't boot this morning: #Hermes putting on his sandals, a #neoclassical work by François Rude.

🏛️ Dated 1827 CE, today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris

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