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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Greek Antiquities > Greek art at the Sixth... > Marble head from a herm
Marble head from a herm
Artist : Anonyme

Relationship with : Hermès

Date : between the Ist and the IInd century

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1913)
Empereurs romains
Item 20 on 23
Greek Antiquities
Sculpture (Tête)

Area related
Greece


Description   

Copy of a Greek herm of ca. 450-425 B.C.

The herm is a type of monument that takes its name from Hermes, the messenger god, who was also the protector of travelers, communities and houses, entrance and exits, as well as flocks. Herms were typically set up along thoroughfares and boundaries, at gates, ans also at tombs.

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L'Hymne à Hermès
La naissance d'Hermès est racontée dans "L'Hymne à Hermès" datant de l'époque homérique. Zeus fréquentait assidûment la Nymphe Maia, fille d'Atlas et de Pleioné, dans une grotte du mont Cyllène, tandis qu'Héra était endormie.
Prométhée enchaîné
Le texte d'Eschyle est traduit par Leconte de Lisle

 
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