Hermes
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Hermes and Iris, Messengers
Students should use the information below to investigate the role of Herms and Iris as messengers to the gods. Through a thorough examination of text and art students can gain a better idea of just what being a messenger to the gods entailed. Attention should be paid to the idea of Hermes and Iris being go-betweens between gods and men.
Hermes
Harvard 1960.347 - Hermes holding caduceus.
Harvard 1977.216.2244 - Hermes holding caduceus.
Malibu 86.AE.114 - Hermes wears regular garb.
Malibu 86.AE.52 - Hermes bearded holding caduceus.
Mississippi 1977.3.82 - Hermes appears with Iris. A bearded Hermes holds his messenger staff and Iris wears her wings on her back.
Munich 1615A - The messenger Hermes carries the infant Herakles in one hand and his caduceus in the other.
Iris
Boston 63.473 - Iris runs with hands in the air while Achilles drags Hector.
Florence 4209 - Iris leads procession of gods and holds wand like Hermes’.
Mississippi 1977.3.82 - Hermes appears with Iris. A bearded Hermes holds his messenger staff and Iris wears her wings on her back.
Parthenon, West Pediment, fig. N - A running Iris.
Hermes
Apollodorus 3.10.2.
Euripides, Electra 464.
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis 1304
Homer Iliad 1.26.
Homer Iliad 24.339.
Homeric Hymn 2: To Demeter, line 335.
Hesiod Works and Days line 85.
Plato, Cratylus 407e.
Plato, Protagoras, 322c.
Iris
Hesiod Theogony 780.
Homer Iliad 2.122, Homer Iliad 11.185, 15.55.
Plato, Cratylus 408b.
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