Hermes: Messenger of the Gods

The Ancients

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🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Famed as the herald of the Greek gods, Hermes is the ‘jack of all trades’ when it comes to the pantheon of Mount Olympus. Known for his trademark winged sandals and snake encircled sceptre, he is the god of both thieves and shepherds. But how did he earn those titles?

In this episode of the Ancients, Tristan Hughes continues our Gods and Goddesses series with Christopher Bungard to chat all things Hermes and answer the most important of questions - how did his sandals grow wings?

Senior Producer: Elena Guthrie. Assistant Producer: Joseph Knight. Editor: Aidan Lonergan. Script Writer: Andrew Hulse. Voice Actor: Lucy Davidson

Other episodes in this series include: Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, King Midas, Achilles, Poseidon, Medusa, Hades, Persephone, and Demeter.

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0:24.6	forward slash trips. Sing, Muses.
0:35.0	to me a story of Olympus.
0:50.6	Sing to me a story of Olympus and the deathless gods who govern Earth, sea, and and sky.
1:01.0	So the young thief asks as he hides in the long grass beneath a poacher's moon.
1:10.0	This is his first cattle raid, and so his brother has given him just one task. Keep watch on the farmhouse.
1:14.0	But still, the young thief fidgets,
1:18.0	his fingers twitch and stretch.
1:21.0	He plays with the pendant about his neck, the one his brother whittled for him.
1:27.0	Two snakes twined about a wand.
1:30.0	It is the symbol of a god. It will bring you luck. That's what his brother promised as he tied the
1:39.0	pendant about the young thief's neck. Then he was gone, stealing into the night to break into the pastures.
1:49.0	But what God would bring luck to thieves?
1:54.9	It is the muses that come to answer his question.
1:59.6	That breeze rushing through the long grass.
2:04.0	It is their singing, their dancing, their playing of the lyre and the flute.
2:12.1	Who would bring a young thief luck, they whisper?
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