Hermes
Family: divine · Role: god · First appears: Book I 1
Life events
- Zeus sends Hermes so Phrixus will receive Aeetes’ friendly hospitality.(Book III 5)
Book I 1
- child: Erytus “Nor at Alope stayed the sons of Hermes, rich in corn-land, well skilled in craftiness, Erytus and Echion”
- child: Echion “Nor at Alope stayed the sons of Hermes, rich in corn-land, well skilled in craftiness, Erytus and Echion”
Book I 5
- protégé: Aethalides “who had granted him a memory of all things, that never grew dim”
Book II 9
- protégé: Phrixus “Phrixus, who came to the city of Aeetes, bestriding a ram, which Hermes had made all gold;”
Book III 5
- employer: Zeus “had not Zeus himself sent Hermes his messenger down from heaven”
Book III 9
- child: Aethalides “first Telamon himself, dear to Ares, and with him Aethalides, Hermes’ famous son.”
Book IV 1
- pupil: Phrixus “the Aeolid Phrixus once set up to Zeus, the alder of fugitives, when he sacrificed the golden wonder at the bidding of Hermes who graciously met him on the way”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.