Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 2. 8 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 33. 3 :
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Her [the Sibylla Herophiles] tomb is in the grove of [Apollon] Sminthios with these elegiac verses inscribed upon the tomb-stone :–. . . I am buried near the Nymphai and this Hermes. The Hermes stands by the side of the tomb, a square-shaped figure of stone.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 24. 3 :
Themisonion above Laodiceia is also inhabited by Phrygians. When the army of the Gauls was laying waste Ionia and the borders of Ionia, the Themisonians say that they were helped by Herakles, Apollon and Hermes, who revealed to their magistrates in dreams a cave, and commanded that in it should be hidden the Themisonians with their wives and children. This is the reason why in front of the cave they have set up small images, called Gods of the Cave, of Herakles, Hermes and Apollon. The cave is some thirty stades distant from the city, and in it are springs of water. There is no entrance to it, the sunlight does not reach very far, and the greater part of the roof lies quite close to the floor.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 24. 5 :
There are sanctuaries of Hermes Kriophoros (Ram-bearer) and of Hermes called Promakhos (Champion) [at Tanagra in Boiotia]. They account for the former surname by a story that Hermes averted a pestilence from the city by carrying a ram round the walls; to commemorate this alamis made an image of Hermes carrying a ram upon his shoulders. Whichever of the youths is judged to be the most handsome goes round the walls at the feast of Hermes, carrying a lamb on his shoulders. Hermes Promakhos (Champion) is said, on the occasion when an Eretrian fleet put into Tanagra from Euboia, to have led out the youths to the battle; he himself, armed with a scraper like a youth, was chiefly responsible for the rout of the Euboians. In the sanctuary of Promakhos (the Champion) is kept all that is left of the wild strawberry-tree under which they believe that Hermes was nourished. Near by is a theater and by it a portico. I consider that the people of Tanagra have better arrangements for the worship of the gods than any other Greeks. For their houses are in one place, while the sanctuaries are apart beyond the houses in a clear space where no men live.
At the Arkadian gate [of Ithome, Messenia] leading to Megalopolis is a Herma of Attic style; for the square form of Herma is Athenian, and the rest adopted it thence.
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 280 (trans. ONeill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.) :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 16. 1 :
As you travel through the land of Pheneos, are mountains of the Pheneatians called Trikrena (Three Springs), and here are three springs. In them, says the legend, Hermes was washed after birth by the Nymphai of the mountain, and for this reason they are considered sacred to Hermes.
As you go to the portico [in the marketplace of Athens] which they call painted, because of its pictures, there is a bronze statue of Hermes Agoraios (of the Market-place), and near it a gate.
Adjoining [Mount] Kyllene [in Arkadia] is another mountain, Khelydorea (Rich in Tortoises), where Hermes is said to have found a tortoise, taken the shell from the beast, and to have made therefrom a harp.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 32. 3 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 33. 3 :
Trikephalos (Three-Headed) : Hermes, in the role of someone teaching about the roads and bearing an inscription indicating where this road leads, and where that. But perhaps having a head pointing towards each road. The person who set up the Hermes Trikephalos, as Philokhoros says, was Prokleides, a lover of Hipparkhos. Isaios in the speechOn Eukleideswrites : a short way up from the Trikephalos (Three-Headed), by the Hestia road. In full this is the Hermes Trikephalos.
The market-place of Pharai [in Akhaia] is of wide extent after the ancient fashion, and in the middle of it is an image of Hermes, made of stone and bearded. Standing right on the earth, it is of square shape, and of no great size. On it is an inscription, saying that it was dedicated by Simylos the Messenian. It is called Hermes Agoraios (of the Market), and by it is established an oracle. In front of the image is placed a hearth, which also is of stone, and to the hearth bronze lamps are fastened with lead. Coming at eventide, the inquirer of the god, having burnt incense upon the hearth, filled the lamps with oil and lighted them, puts on the altar on the right of the image a local coin, called a copper, and asks in the ear of the god the particular question he wishes to put to him. After that he stops his ears and leaves the marketplace. On coming outside he takes his hands from his ears, and whatever utterance he hears he considers oracular.
Each month the Eleans sacrifice once on all the altars I have enumerated. They sacrifice in an ancient manner; for they burn on the altars incense with wheat which has been kneaded with honey, placing also on the altars twigs of olive, and using wine for a libation . . . The traditional words spoken by them in the Town Hall at the libations, and the hymns which they sing, it were not right for me to introduce into my narrative. They pour libations, not only to the Greek gods, but also to the god [Zeus Ammon] in Libya, to Hera Ammonia and to Parammon (from Ammon), which is a surname of Hermes.
Hard by [the market-place of Sikyon] stands Hermes Agoraios (of the Market-place).
Aesop, Fables 564 (from Babrius 48) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
Suidas s.v. Trikephalos (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) :
At a later date other images were dedicated in the Heraion [temple of Hera at Olympia], including a marble Hermes carrying the baby Dionysos, a work of Praxiteles. [N.B. The sculpture is extant, for a photo seeS11.1.]
The Athenians are far more devoted to religion than other men . . . they were the first to set up limbless Hermai.
The ithyphallic images of Hermes [i.e. the Hermai]; the production of these came from the Pelasgians [of Arkadia and Thessalia], from whom the Athenians were the first Greeks to take it, and then handed it on to others. For the Athenians were then already counted as Greeks when the Pelasgians came to live in the land with them and thereby began to be considered as Greeks. Whoever has been initiated into the rites of the Kabeiroi, which the Samothrakians learned from the Pelasgians and now practice, understands what my meaning is [the Kabeiroi gods were the keepers of a sacred phallus]. Samothrake was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the Samothrakians take their rites. The Athenians, then, were the first Greeks to make ithyphallic images of Hermes, and they did this because the Pelasgians taught them. The Pelasgians told a certain sacred tale about this, which is set forth in the Samothrakian mysteries.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 39. 6 :
Dionysios offered a prize of a golden crown at the festival of the Khoes for the man who drank most. It was won by Xenokrates of Khalkedon [head of the Academy 339-312 B.C.]. He took his crown, went home after dinner and put it on the statue of Hermes by his front door, following the custom he had observed during the preceding days–in fact he had rested there crowns made from flowers, myrtle, ivy, and laurel and left them.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 24. 3 :
Those who first built temples to the gods . . . Lycaon [the mythical first king of Arkadia], son of Pelasgus, built a temple [the first] to Mercurius [Hermes] of Cyllene in Arcadia.
There is near Tanagra [in Boiotia] . . . Mount Kerykios (of the Herald), the reputed birthplace of Hermes.
There is also on [Mount] Helikon [at the shrine of the Mousai, in Boiotia] a bronze Apollon fighting with Hermes for the lyre.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 27. 1 :
[The Eleusinian gods were hymned at the Thesmophoria festival of Athens :]Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 22. 8 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 17. 2 :
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 225 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
There are images of Plouton [Haides], Hermes, and Gaia (Earth) [in the temple of the Eumenides at Athens], by which sacrifice those who have received an acquittal on the Hill of Ares; sacrifices are also offered on other occasions by both citizens and aliens.
In the temple of Athena Polias (Of the City ) is a wooden Hermes, said to have been dedicated by [the mythical king] Kekrops, but not visible because of myrtle boughs.
HERMES was the Olympian god of the herds, trades, athletes and heralds.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 7. 22. 4 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 17. 5 :
The Athenians are far more devoted to religion than other men . . . they were the first to set up limbless Hermai.
Akakos [a mythical hero] founded Akakesion. It was after this Akakos, according to the Arcadian account, that Homer made a surname for Hermes.
In the gymnasium not far from the market-place [of Athens], called Ptolemys from the founder, are stone Hermai [primitive stone statues of Hermes] well worth seeing.
On the way from the Hermai [on the borders of Argos] to Lakedaimonia the whole of the region is full of oak-trees.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 32. 2 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 6. 26. 5 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 47. 4 :
Hermes Ingenui, Greco-Roman marble statue,Pio-Clementino Museum, Vatican Museums
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 10. 6 :
At Korseia [in Boiotia], under which is a grove of trees that are not cultivated, being mostly evergreen oaks. A small image of Hermes stands in the open part of the grove.
Here [in Troizenos, Argolis] there is also a Hermes called Polygios. Against this image, they say, Herakles leaned his club.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 3. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
[In the temple of Hera at Olympia] there are figures of Hera, Zeus, the Mother of the gods [Rhea], Hermes, and Apollo with Artemis. Behind is the disposition of the games.Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 38. 7 :
The ruins of Etis [in Lakedaimonia] are not more than seven stades distant from Boiai. On the way to them there stands on the left a stone image of Hermes.
First at the entrance [of the temple of Apollon Ismenion at Thebes in Boiotia] are Athena and Hermes, stone figures and named Pronai (Of the fore-temple ). The Hermes is said to have been made by Pheidias, the Athena by Skopas.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 20. 3 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 19. 6 – 7 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 30. 2 :
The Eleans said that Pelops was the first to found a temple of Hermes in Peloponnesos and to sacrifice to the god, his purpose being to avert the wrath of the god for the death of Myrtilos.
In the temple [of Demeter at Megalopolis] are images made by Damophon, a wooden Hermes and a wooden Aphrodite with hands, face and feet of stone.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 15. 1 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 3. 2 :
In classical and Hellenistic art Hermes was depicted as a handsome, athletic youth with short, curly hair. He was usually depicted nude with a robe draped across the shoulder and arm and sometimes wearing a winged cap. In older Greek art Hermes was portrayed as a mature, bearded god–a representation which remained popular on Herma (phallic, bust of Hermes pillar-statues) well into classical times.
Hermes, Herakles and Theseus, who are honored in the gymnasium and wrestling-ground according to a practice universal among Greeks, and now common among barbarians.
At Pharai [in Akhaia] there is also a water sacred to Hermes. The name of the spring is Hermes stream, and the fish in it are not caught, being considered sacred to the god. Quite close to the image stand square stones, about thirty in number. These the people of Pharai adore, calling each by the name of some god. At a more remote period all the Greeks alike worshipped uncarved stones instead of images of the gods.
I. THEBES Main City of Boeotia (Boiotia)
Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 32. 1 :
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The image of Hermes in the gymnasium [of Phigalia, Arkadia] is like to one dressed in a cloak; but the statue does not end in feet, but in the square shape.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 34. 3 :
Woman Herald : Silence! Silence! Pray to the Thesmophorai, Demeter and Koura [Persephone]; pray to Ploutos, Kalligeneia, Kourotrophos [Hekate], Ge (the Earth), Hermes and the Kharites (Graces), that all may happen for the best at this gathering, both for the greatest advantage of Athens and for our own personal happiness!
[In the Akadamia of Athens] there is an altar to the Mousai, and another to Hermes, and one within to Athena, and they have built one to Herakles.At the foot of this hill [the Akakesion Hill in Arkadia] used to be a city Akakasion, and even to-day there is on the hill a stone image of Hermes Akakesios, the story of the Arkadians about it being that here the child Hermes was reared, and that Akakos the son of Lykaon became his foster-father.
His cult was centred on the Peloponnese. Arguably, his most important shrine was that of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia, his reputed birth place.
As to the wooden images of Aphrodite and Hermes [in the temple of Apollon Lykios in Argos], the one [the statue of Hermes] they say was made by Epeios [the builder of the Trojan Horse] . . . Within the temple is a statue of . . . Hermes with a tortoise which he has caught to make a lyre.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 38. 7 :
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The whole country [of Elis] is full of temples . . . and there are also numerous shrines of Hermes on the roadsides.
Sokrates : Hipparkhos [an Athenian statesman late C6th B.C.] . . . among the many goodly proofs of wisdom that he showed . . . proceeded, with the design of educating those of the countryside, to set up figures of Hermes (Hermai) for them along the roads in the midst of the city and every district town . . . that his people should not admire those wise Delphic legends of Know thyself and Nothing overmuch, and the other sayings of the sort, but should rather regard as wise the utterances of Hipparkhos; and that in the second place, through passing up and down and reading his words and acquiring a taste for his wisdom, they might resort hither from the country for the completion of their education. There are two such inscriptions of his: on the left side of each Hermes there is one in which the god says that he stands in the midst of the city or the township, while on the right side he says : The memorial of Hipparkhos : walk with just intent. There are many other fine inscriptions from his poems on other figures of Hermes, and this one in particular, on the Steiria road, in which he says : The memorial of Hipparkhos : deceive not a friend.
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 5. 15 (trans. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to 2nd A.D.) :
The place called Hierothesion [in Messenia] by the Messenians contains statues of all the gods whom the Greeks worship . . . The statues in the gymnasium are the work of Aigyptian artists. They represent Hermes, Herakles and Theseus, who are honored in the gymnasium and wrestling-ground according to a practice universal among Greeks, and now common among barbarians.
As you go to the starting-point for the chariot-race [at Olympia] there [are several altars including] an oblong altar of the Moirai (Fates), after it one of Hermes, and the next two are of Zeus Most High.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 34. 3 :
There are two bronze, standing images of Hermes [in Korinthos], for one of which a temple has been made.
Odysseus stepped quickly over the threshold into the palace [of King Alkinous of the Phaiakians]. He found the Phaiakian lords and rulers pouring libations from their cups to the Euskopos (Keen-sighted) Argeiphontes (Radiant One) [Hermes] to whom by custom they poured libation last when they turned their thoughts to the nights rest [at the end of the feast].
Near it [the market-place of Megalopolis in Arkadia] I found a temple of Hermes Akakesios in ruins, with nothing remaining except a tortoise of stone.
[At Thebes is a statue of] Hermes called Agoraios (of the Market-place).Mount Parnon, on which the Lakedaimonian border meets the borders of the Argives [of Argolis] and Tegeatai [of Arkadia]. On the borders stand stone figures of Hermes, from which the name of the place is derived.
Plato, Hipparchus 228d (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 12. 6 :
Hermai were boundary or mile-stones, carved with the the head and phallus of Hermes. They were rural markers which were also supposed to ensure the fertility of the herds and flocks and bring luck. Hermai were erected at boundaries, crossroads and in gymnasia.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 24. 7 :
Hermes Youth from Antikythera, Greek bronze statueC4th B.C.,National Archaeological Museum, Athens
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Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 3. 4 :
Proceeding on the direct road to Lekhaion [the port of Korinthos] we see a bronze image of a seated Hermes. By him stands a ram, for Hermes is the god who is thought most to care for and to increase flocks, as Homer puts it in theIliad:–Son was he of Phorbas, the dearest of Trojans to Hermes, rich in flocks, for the god vouchsafed him wealth in abundance. The story told at the mysteries of the Mother [Demeter] about Hermes and the ram I know but do not relate.
The highest mountain in Arkadia is Kyllene, on the top of which is a dilapidated temple of Hermes Kyllenios (of Mt Kyllene). It is clear that Kyllenos, the son of Elatos, gave the mountain its name and the god his surname. In days of old, men made wooden images, so far as I have been able to discover, from the following trees ebony, cypress, cedar, oak, yew, lotus. But the image of Hermes Kyllenios is made of none of these, but of juniper wood. Its height, I conjecture, is about eight feet.
At the Arkadian gate [of Ithome, Messenia] leading to Megalopolis is a Herma of Attic style; for the square form of Herma is Athenian, and the rest adopted it thence.
Right at the very entrance to the Akropolis [of Athens] is a [statue of] Hermes called Hermes Propylaios (of the Gateway).
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 1. 7 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
Herodotus, Histories 2. 51 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) :
The two brothers [the Dioskouroi], at the games of Spartas wide-built city, joint partons with Hermes and with Herakles the presidency share.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 32. 1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
[At the] temple of Hermes . . . one of them [the supplicants requesting wisdom] would hang on the altar gold, another silver, another a heralds wand of ivory, and others other rich presents of the kind. Now Aesop, she said, was not in a position to own any of these things; but he saved up what he had, and poured a libation of as much milk as a sheep would give at one milking in honour of Hermes, and brought a honeycomb and laid it on the altar, big enough to fill the hand, and he thought of regaling the god with myrtle berries, or perhaps by laying just a few roses or violets at the altar.The altar [of Amphiaraus at Oropos] shows parts . . . the third [part] is to Hestia and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the children of Amphilokhos.
The story told at the Mysteries of the Mother [Demeter at Eleusis] about Hermes and the ram I know but do not relate.
Aelian, Historical Miscellany 2. 41 (trans. Wilson) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) :
Some three stades away from the fountain [of Tegea, Arkadia] is a temple of Hermes Aipytos.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 20. 2 :
One of the porticoes [of the Kerameikos of Athens] contains shrines of gods, and a gymnasium called that of Hermes.
At Hermaion [in Arkadia], where is the boundary between Messenia and Megalopolis they have made a Hermes also on a slab.
There was a four-cornered statue of Hermes [a Herma] by the side of the road, with a heap of stones piled at its base.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 31. 10 :
After this [the great altar of Zeus at Olympia] comes an altar of Apollon and Hermes in common, because the Greeks have a story about them that Hermes invented the lyre and Apollon the lute.
Beside the spring [at Las, Lakedaimonia is] a gymnasium, which contains an ancient statue of Hermes.
As you go to Pellene [in Akhaia] there is, by the roadside, an image of Hermes, who, in spite of his surname of Dolios (Crafty), is ready to fulfill the prayers of men. He is of square shape and bearded, and on his head is carved a cap.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 17. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
There is also [a statue of] Hermes Agoraios (of the Market-place) [in the market-place of Sparta, Lakedaimonia] carrying Dionysus as a child.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 34. 6 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 17. 2 :
I was making my way from the Academy straight to the Lykeion (Lyceum), by the road outside the town wall . . . and they [at the Lykeion gymnasium] are keeping the Hermaia (Festival of Hermes), so that the youths and boys are all mingled together . . . I took Ktesippos with me into the wrestling school, and the others came after us. When we got inside, we found that the boys had performed the sacrifice in the place and, as the ceremonial business was now almost over, they were all playing at knuckle-bones and wearing their finest attire. [N.B. The festival of Hermes, who was specially honored in wrestling schools.]
The sanctuary built in common for the Mousai, Apollon and Hermes had for me to record only a few foundations, but there was still one of the Mousai, with an image of Apollon after the style of the square Hermai.
Of the gods the people of Pheneos [in Arkadia] worship most Hermes, in whose honor they celebrate the games called Hermaia; they have also a temple of Hermes, and a stone image, made by an Athenian, Eukheir the son of Euboulides. Behind the temple is the grave of Myrtilos. The Greeks say that he was the son of Hermes, and that he served as charioteer to Oinomaos.
[Eumaios the swine-herd of Odysseus] spitted the pieces [of a hog], roasted them carefully, took them all off again, then heaped them on serving-dishes. The swineherd stood up to portion them out justly, as was his way. He divided the whole into seven portions, assigning one, with the due prayer, to the Nymphai and to Hermes son of Maia, and giving the rest to the diners one by one.On the market-place of Koroneia [in Boiotia] I found . . . an altar of Hermes Epimelios (Keeper of flocks).
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 10. 2 :
About fifteen stades distant from Phaidries is an Hermaion (Temple of Hermes) called by the Mistress; it too forms a boundary between Messenia and Megalopolis [in Arkadia]. There are small images of Despoine (the Mistress) and Demeter; likewise of Hermes and Herakles.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 33. 4 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 2. 5 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
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Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 35. 2 :
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Hermes was one of the gods of the Eleusinian Mysteries. He was the god who escorted Persephone to earth in spring and returned her to the underworld in autumn.
[At a] site anciently called Oikhalia, in our time the Karnasian grove, thickly grown with cypresses. There are statues of the gods Apollon Karneios, also Hermes carrying a ram.Aeschylus, Fragment 150 Psychagogi (from Aristophanes, Frogs 1266 with Scholiast) (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 32. 4 :
The temple near the race-course [of Megalopolis, Arkadia] shared by Herakles and Hermes was no longer there, only their altar was left.
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Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 15. 11 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 11. 11 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
Quite close to the entrance to the stadium [at Olympia are two altars; one they call the altar of Hermes Enagonios (of the Games), the other the altar of Kairos (Opportunity).
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 22. 13 :
I. MEGALOPOLIS Main City of Arcadia (Arkadia)
Strabo, Geography 8. 3. 12 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 14. 9 :
[Amongst the offerings at Olympia is a statue of] Hermes carrying the ram under his arm, with a helmet on his head, and clad in tunic and cloak . . . [it was] given to the god by the Arkadians of Pheneus. The inscription says that the artist was Onatas of Aigina helped by Kalliteles, who I think was a pupil or son of Onatas. Not far from the offering of the Pheneatians is another image, Hermes with a heralds wand. An inscription on it says that Glaukias, a Rhegian by descent, dedicated it, and Gallon of Elis made it.Hermes Richelieu, Greco-Roman marble statue C2nd A.D.,Muse du Louvre
Homer, Odyssey 7. 137 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
In the gymnasium not far from the market-place [of Athens], called Ptolemys from the founder, are stone Hermai [primitive stone statues of Hermes] well worth seeing.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 27. 8 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 27. 1 :
Plato, Lysis 203a & 206d (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) :
I. CORINTH (KORINTHOS) Main City of Corinthia (Korinthia)
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 1 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 30. 6 :
In Kyllene [in Elis] . . . the image of Hermes, most devoutly worshipped by the inhabitants, is merely the male member upright on the pedestal.
Pindar, Nemean Ode 10. 52 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 34. 1 :
Mount Parnon, on which the Lakedaemonian border meets the borders of the Argives and Tegeatai [of Arkadia]. On the borders stand stone figures of Hermes, from which the name of the place is derived.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 31. 6 – 7 :
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 17. 3 :
CULT IN CORINTHIA (SOUTHERN GREECE)
In the market-place [of Methana, Argolis] is an image of Hermes.
We, who dwell by the lake [Stymphalis in Arkadia], honour Hermes as our ancestor.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 22. 1 – 2 :