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Hermes Ἑρμῆς
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I. Name Hermes was one of the most popular and frequently represented, if most complex, of the Greek Olympian deities. Identified by the Romans with Mercury, he was associated from the archaic through the Hellenistic periods with cunning and theft, music and eloquence, travel and commerce, and (especially as the Hellenistic Hermes Trismegistus) magic, alchemy and astrology. In the Bible, Hermes occurs as a divine name in
Acts 14.12, and as the name of an otherwise unknown Roman Christian greeted by Paul in
Rom. 16.14. II. Identity The name, Hermes, is attested from three palace ar…