Editing Hermes (section)

==Epithets==
[[File:Man wearing Petasos Coinage of Kapsa Macedon circa 400 BCE.jpg|thumb|Hermes wearing a petasos. Coinage of [[Campsa (Macedonia)|Kapsa]], [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]], c. 400 BC.]]

===Argeïphontes===
Hermes's [[epithet]] ''Argeïphontes'' ({{langx|grc|Ἀργειφόντης}}; {{langx|la|Argicida}}), meaning "slayer of Argus",<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book |title=The Facts on File: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend}}</ref><ref>Homeric Hymn 29 to Hestia.</ref> recalls the slaying of the hundred-eyed giant [[Argus Panoptes]] by the messenger god. Argus was watching over the heifer-nymph [[Io (mythology)|Io]] in the sanctuary of [[Hera]] in Argos. Hermes, disguised as a shepherd, placed a charm on Argus's eyes with the caduceus to cause the giant to sleep, after which he slew the giant with a [[harpe]].<ref name="Greekhistory&gods">{{cite book |url=http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Greekhistory%26gods.htm |title=Greek History and the Gods |publisher=Grand Valley State University (Michigan) |access-date=8 April 2012 |archive-date=29 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229074056/https://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Greekhistory%26gods.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The eyes were then put into the tail of the [[Peafowl|peacock]], a symbol of Hera.

An Homeric form is '''diaktoros Argeïphontes'''.({{langx|grc|διάκτορος ἀργειφόντης}}). Frisk derives  "argophontes"  from "argos" (argipous), "fast" frequently for dogs. Sanskrit ''rirẚ'', ''rji-pya'', "fast flying", Armenian ''arevi''. The meaning seems similar to the epithet of Hermes ''kynagches'', dog-throttler. "Diaktor" (from -kter, kill) indicates a god of death.<ref>Nilsson, Vol I p.501 A1</ref><ref name="Liddel Scott">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkuna%2Fgxhs Liddel Scott]</ref>

===Local cults===
*'''Aipytos''', with a temple at Tegea in Arcadia.<ref name=Nilsson502>Nilsson, Vol. I, p.502</ref>
*'''[[Acacesium|Acacesius]]''', with a temple at Megalopolis <ref name=Nilsson502/> 
*'''Cranaios''', on the mountain Ida in Crete.<ref>Nilsson, Vol. I, p.261</ref> 
*'''Cyllenian''' ({{langx|el|Κυλλήνιος}}), because according to some myths he was born at the [[Mount Cyllene]], and nursed by the [[Oread]] nymph [[Cyllene (nymph)|Cyllene]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2660 |title=Suda, kappa.2660 |access-date=2 November 2020 |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816215532/https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2660 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = A Companion to Sophocles | first1 = Kirk | last1 = Ormand | publisher = Wiley Blackwell | isbn = 978-1-119-02553-5 | date = 2012 | page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ad0qBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 163]}}</ref>
* '''dromios''', god of the race-course in Crete <ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D*dro%2Fmios dromios]</ref>
*'''Perpheraios''', Hyperborean in Thrace.<ref>Nilsson, Vol. I, p.81</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D*perferai%3Dos Lidell Scott]</ref>

===Related to animals===
{{main|Kriophoros}}
* '''epimelios''', taking care of animals.<ref name=Nilsson506>Nilsson, Vol. I, p.506</ref>
*'''kriophoros'''.In ancient Greek culture, ''kriophoros'' ({{langx|el|κριοφόρος}}) or ''criophorus'', the "ram-bearer",<ref>MA De La Torre, A Hernández, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FPo_nS1Ce1sC&dq=Hermes+Thoth&pg=PA121 The Quest for the Historical Satan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055832/https://books.google.com/books?id=FPo_nS1Ce1sC&dq=Hermes+Thoth&pg=PA121 |date=12 April 2023 }}, Fortress Press, 2011, {{ISBN|0-8006-6324-1}}.</ref> is a figure that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram. It becomes an epithet of Hermes.
*'''ktenites''', taking care of horses, lions, dogs, etc.<ref name=Nilsson506/>
*'''molossos''', nursing small animals.<ref name=Nilsson506/>
*'''nomios''', nursing small animals.<ref name=Nilsson506/>

===Messenger and guide===
[[File:Euphronios krater side A MET L.2006.10.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Sarpedon's body carried by [[Hypnos]] and [[Thanatos]] (Sleep and Death), while Hermes watches. Side A of the so-called "Euphronios krater", Attic red-figured calyx-krater signed by Euxitheos (potter) and Euphronios (painter), c. 515 BC.]]
The chief office of the god was as messenger.<ref name="Blackwood">{{cite book |author=W. Blackwood Ltd. (Edinburgh) |title=Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 22; Volume 28 |publisher=Leonard Scott & Co. 1849}}</ref> Explicitly, at least in sources of classical writings, of [[Euripides]]'s ''Electra'' and ''Iphigenia in Aulis''<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Iphigenia in Aulis'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0108%3Acard%3D1276 1301] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129210645/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0108:card%3D1276 |date=29 November 2021 }}.</ref> and in [[Epictetus]]'s ''Discourses''.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?all_words=Hermes&target=en&documents=&phrase=Hermes&exclude_words=&page=9&any_words= Perseus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123143951/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?all_words=Hermes&target=en&documents=&phrase=Hermes&exclude_words=&page=9&any_words= |date=23 January 2022 }} – Tufts University</ref> Hermes (''Diactorus'', ''Angelos'')<ref>{{cite book|author1=R Davis-Floyd|author2=P Sven Arvidson|title=Intuition: The Inside Story : Interdisciplinary Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45cpgKImproC&pg=PA96|year=1997|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-91594-6|page=96}}</ref> the messenger,<ref name="larousse">{{cite book |title=New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology |publisher=Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited |edition=New (fifth impression) |year=1972 |orig-year=1968 |page=123 |isbn=0-600-02351-6}}</ref> is in fact only seen in this role, for Zeus, from within the pages of the ''Odyssey''.<ref name="Brown" /> The messenger divine and herald of the Gods, he wears the gifts from his father, the petasos and talaria.<ref name="Rochester"/>

{{blockquote|Oh mighty messenger of the gods of the upper and lower worlds... (Aeschylus).<ref name="Duchesne-Guillemin">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MoUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA226 |author=Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin |title=Études mithriaques: actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 september 1975 |year=1976 |publisher=BRILL, 1978|isbn=90-04-03902-3 }}</ref>}}
*'''aggelos''', messenger.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D18%3Acard%3D1 Hymn 18 to Hermes]</ref>
*'''agetor''', god of travellers.<ref name=Nilsson507>Nilsson, Vol. I, p.507</ref>
* '''chrysorappis''', "with golden wand", an Homeric epithet.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dxruso%2Frrapis Lidell Scott]</ref>
*'''diaktoros''', an Homeric epithet. Messenger of the gods and conductor of the shades of the dead.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0073%3Aentry%3Ddia%2Fktoros Lidell Scot]</ref>
*'''hegemonios''', protector of the wayfarers.<ref name=Nilsson507/>
*'''eriounios''', an Homeric epithet with uncertain meaning. According to Hesychius: oùnei, deṹro, dràme. The Arcadians also oùnon, the Cypriots drómon.<ref name="ounei">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dou%29%2Fnei ounei]</ref> This intepretetion relates the epithet to "move quickly".<ref>C.M.Bowra, JHS.LIV, 1934, p.68: Nilsson, Vol. I, p.501, A1</ref>
*'''hodios''', patron of travelers and wayfarers.<ref name="ReferenceA" />
* '''kerix''', messenger.<ref name=Nilsson509>Nilsson, Vol. I, p.509</ref>
* '''oneiropompus''', conductor of dreams.<ref name="ReferenceA" />
* '''poimandres''', shepherd of men.<ref name="Marie-Luise von Franz">{{cite book |author=M-L von Franz |author-link=Marie-Louise von Franz |title=Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul |year=1980 |publisher=Open Court Publishing, 1985 |isbn=0-87548-417-4}}</ref>
* '''pompos''', conveyor related to the underworld.<ref name=Nilsson509>Nilsson, Vol. I, p.509</ref>
* '''pompaios''', conductor.<ref name=Nilsson509/>
* '''[[psychopompos]]''', conveyor or conductor of souls,<ref name="larousse" /><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Crisolenguas |first=Jonathan F. |last=Krell |url=http://crisolenguas.uprrp.edu/ArticlesV2N2/Gustave%20Moreau.pdf |title=Mythical patterns in the art of Gustave Moreau: The primacy of Dionysus |volume=2 |number=2 |access-date=29 March 2019 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415165350/http://crisolenguas.uprrp.edu/ArticlesV2N2/Gustave%20Moreau.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''psychogogue'', conductor or leader of souls in (or through) the [[Greek underworld|underworld]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pz2ORay2HWoC&pg=RA2-PA1328 |title=The Chambers Dictionary |publisher=Allied Publishers |year=1998|isbn=978-81-86062-25-8 }}</ref>
* '''sokos eriounios''', a Homeric epithet with a much-debated meaning – probably "swift, good-running".<ref>Reece, Steve, "Σῶκος Ἐριούνιος Ἑρμῆς (Iliad 20.72): The Modification of a Traditional Formula," ''Glotta: Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache'' 75 (1999–2000) 259–280, understands ''Sokos'' as a metanalysis of a word ending in -s plus ''Okus'' "swift", and ''eriounios'' as related to Cyprian "good-running". [https://www.academia.edu/30821165] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016120243/https://www.academia.edu/30821165|date=16 October 2021}}</ref> But in the Hymn to Hermes ''Eriounios'' is etymologized as "very beneficial".<ref>Wrongly, according to Reece, Steve, "A Figura Etymologica in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes," ''Classical Journal'' 93.1 (1997) 29–39. https://www.academia.edu/30641338/A_Figura_Etymologica_in_the_Homeric_Hymn_to_Hermes {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231033536/https://www.academia.edu/30641338/A_Figura_Etymologica_in_the_Homeric_Hymn_to_Hermes |date=31 December 2019 }}</ref>

===Trade===
[[File:Hermes Logios Altemps 33.jpg|thumb|upright|250px|So-called "Logios Hermes" (''Hermes Orator''). Marble, Roman copy from the late 1st century BC – early 2nd century AD after a Greek original of the 5th century BC.]]

* ''[[Agoraeus]]'', of the [[agora]];<ref name=lang>{{cite book |first=Mabel |last=Lang |author-link=Mabel Lang |title=Graffiti in the Athenian Agora |url=http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/publications/upload/Graffiti%20in%20the%20Athenian%20AgoraLR.pdf|access-date=14 April 2007 |edition=rev. |series=Excavations of the Athenian Agora |year=1988 |publisher=American School of Classical Studies at Athens |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=0-87661-633-3 |page=7| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040609002142/http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/publications/upload/Graffiti%20in%20the%20Athenian%20AgoraLR.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2004 }}</ref> belonging to ''the market'' ([[Aristophanes]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ehrenberg |first1=Victor |title=The People of Aristophanes: A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy |date=1951 |publisher=B. Blackwell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oikOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147}}</ref>
* ''Empolaios'', "engaged in traffic and commerce"<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

Hermes is sometimes depicted in art works holding a purse.<ref name="S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth">{{cite book |author1=S. Hornblower |author2=A. Spawforth |title=The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization |page=370|publisher=Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-870677-9}}</ref>

===Dolios ("tricky")===
Source:<ref>[[Polly Young-Eisendrath|P Young-Eisendrath]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=5dZUM7ogtQYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA266 The Cambridge Companion to Jung] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429235016/https://books.google.com/books?id=5dZUM7ogtQYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA266 |date=29 April 2023 }}, Cambridge University Press, 2008, {{ISBN|0-521-68500-1}}.</ref>

No cult to Hermes Dolios existed in [[Attica]], and so "this form of Hermes seems to have existed in speech only, but he was surely still a real power"<ref>I Polinskaya, citing Robert Parker (2003): I Polinskaya, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8FqNAgAAQBAJ&dq=Hermes+dolios&pg=PA103 ''A Local History of Greek Polytheism: Gods, People and the Land of Aigina, 800–400 BCE'' (p. 103)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429233509/https://books.google.com/books?id=8FqNAgAAQBAJ&dq=Hermes+dolios&pg=PA103 |date=29 April 2023 }}, BRILL, 2013, {{ISBN|90-04-26208-3}}.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/anuniversalhist05histgoog/page/n43 <!-- pg=34 quote=Attica history. --> An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time – Volume 5 (p. 34)], 1779.</ref>

Hermes Dolio is ambiguous.<ref>L Kahn-Lyotard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ANC8Cwuk46sC&dq=Hermes+dolios&pg=PA185 Greek and Egyptian Mythologies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054901/https://books.google.com/books?id=ANC8Cwuk46sC&dq=Hermes%20dolios&pg=PA185 |date=12 April 2023 }} (edited by Y Bonnefoy), University of Chicago Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-226-06454-9}}.</ref> According to prominent [[folklorist]] [[Yeleazar Meletinsky]], Hermes is a deified [[trickster]]<ref name="Meletinskii93p131">Meletinsky, ''Introduzione'' (1993), p. 131.</ref> and master of thieves ("a plunderer, a cattle-raider, a night-watching" in the ''Homeric Hymn to Hermes'')<ref>N. O. Brown, ''Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth''</ref> and deception ([[Euripides]])<ref>NW Slater, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WoEPlVY9vYEC&dq=Hermes+Dolios&pg=PA179 Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429233510/https://books.google.com/books?id=WoEPlVY9vYEC&dq=Hermes%20Dolios&pg=PA179 |date=29 April 2023 }}, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, {{ISBN|0-8122-3652-1}}.</ref> and (possibly evil) tricks and trickeries,<ref name="ReferenceB">[[Aristophanes]]{{clarify|date=April 2016}}</ref><ref>"[T]he thief praying...": [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZh1OgWCIWgC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA221 W Kingdon Clifford, L Stephen, F Pollock] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055833/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZh1OgWCIWgC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA221 |date=12 April 2023 }}</ref><ref>William Stearns Davis – ''A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles'', Wildside Press LLC, 2007, {{ISBN|1-4344-8334-7}}.</ref><ref>A Brown, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JQQOAAAAQAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA101 A New Companion to Greek Tragedy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430001029/https://books.google.com/books?id=JQQOAAAAQAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA101 |date=30 April 2023 }}, Taylor & Francis, 1983, {{ISBN|0-389-20396-3}}.</ref> crafty (from ''lit''. god of craft),<ref>F Santi Russell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xIh_Vsbc4IYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA183 Information Gathering in Classical Greece] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055835/https://books.google.com/books?id=xIh_Vsbc4IYC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA183 |date=12 April 2023 }}, University of Michigan Press, 1999.</ref> the cheat,<ref>JJ Ignaz von Döllinger, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2MsZAAAAMAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA191 The Gentile and the Jew in the courts of the Temple of Christ: an introduction to the history of Christianity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054904/https://books.google.com/books?id=2MsZAAAAMAAJ&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA191 |date=12 April 2023 }}, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1862.</ref> the god of stealth.<ref>EL Wheeler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WsF8FF40qKUC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA32 ''Stratagem and the Vocabulary of Military Trickery''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429235018/https://books.google.com/books?id=WsF8FF40qKUC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA32 |date=29 April 2023 }}, BRILL, 1988, {{ISBN|90-04-08831-8}}.</ref> He is also known as the friendliest to man, cunning,<ref>R Parker, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&dq=Hermes+Dolios&pg=PA126 Polytheism and Society at Athens] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430001028/https://books.google.com/books?id=ff51JeXhHXUC&dq=Hermes+Dolios&pg=PA126 |date=30 April 2023 }}, Oxford University Press, 2007, {{ISBN|0-19-921611-8}}.</ref> treacherous,<ref>[[Athenaeus]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=WkViAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes+Dolios ''The learned banqueters''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412055832/https://books.google.com/books?id=WkViAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes+Dolios |date=12 April 2023 }}, Harvard University Press, 2008.</ref> and a schemer.<ref>I Ember, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QYKfAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes+Dolios ''Music in painting: music as symbol in Renaissance and baroque painting''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430001026/https://books.google.com/books?id=QYKfAAAAMAAJ&q=Hermes%20Dolios |date=30 April 2023 }}, Corvina, 1984.</ref>

Hermes Dolios was worshipped at [[Pellene]]<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+7.27.1 7.27.1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616052518/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.%207.27.1 |date=16 June 2022 }}</ref><ref>Plutarch (trans. William Reginald Halliday), ''The Greek questions of Plutarch''.</ref> and invoked through Odysseus.<ref>S Montiglio, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AuU7DDnpd4EC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA278 ''Silence in the Land of Logos''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054909/https://books.google.com/books?id=AuU7DDnpd4EC&dq=HermesDolios&pg=PA278 |date=12 April 2023 }}, Princeton University Press, 2010, {{ISBN|0-691-14658-6}}.</ref>

{{blockquote|(As the ways of gain are not always the ways of honesty and straightforwardness, Hermes obtains a bad character and an in-moral (amoral [ed.]) cult as Dolios)<ref>J Pòrtulas, C Miralles, Archilochus and the Iambic Poetry (page 24)</ref>{{Verify source|date=August 2024|reason=cite linked to google search results, unclear if anyone read original source}} }}

Hermes is ''amoral''<ref>{{cite book|author=John H. Riker|title=Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MzAl_Pn6s_UC&pg=PA187|year=1991|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-1736-3|page=187}}</ref> like a baby.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Samuels|title=Jung and the Post-Jungians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SI0OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA247|year=1986|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|isbn=978-0-7102-0864-4|page=247}}</ref> Zeus sent Hermes as a teacher to humanity to teach them knowledge of and value of justice and to improve inter-personal relationships ("[[Human bonding|bonding between mortals]]").<ref>{{cite book|author=Ben-Ami Scharfstein|title=Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibkxwtmP7_UC&pg=PA102|year=1995|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-2279-3|page=102}}</ref>

Considered to have a mastery of rhetorical persuasion and ''special pleading'', the god typically has nocturnal ''[[Wikt:modus operandi|modus operandi]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Homerus|title=Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYvVJ3zB7W8C|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-45158-1}}</ref> Hermes knows the boundaries and crosses the borders of them to confuse their definition.<ref>L Hyde, [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781847672254 <!-- quote=Hermes trickster. --> Trickster Makes this World: Mischief, Myth and Art], Canongate Books, 2008.</ref>

===Thief===
[[File:Hermes Propylaeus Roman copy Alkamens, Glyptothek Munich 159 120280.jpg|thumb|upright|200px|Hermes Propylaeus. Roman copy of the [[Alcamenes]] statue from the entrance of the Athenian [[Acropolis]], original shortly after the 450 BC.]]

*In the Lang translation of the ''Homeric Hymn to Hermes'', the god after being born is described as a ''robber'', ''a captain of raiders'' and a ''thief of the gates''.<ref>Andrew Lang, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16338/16338-h/16338-h.htm THE HOMERIC HYMNS A NEW PROSE TRANSLATION AND ESSAYS, LITERARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924201605/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16338/16338-h/16338-h.htm |date=24 September 2015 }}. Transcribed from the 1899 George Allen edition.</ref>
*'''klepsiphron''' (κλεψίφρων), with the mind of a thief. 
<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?all_words=kleyi/frwn&all_words_expand=yes&la=greek Hymn 4 to Hermes]</ref>
*'''pheletes''' (φηλητής), thief,<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dfhlhth%2Fs  pheletes]</ref><ref name="Nilsson, Vol. I p.507">Nilsson, Vol. I p.507</ref>
*'''phelos''' (φήλος), deceitful.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=fh%3Dlos&la=greek&can=fh%3Dlos0&prior=fhlhth/s&d=Perseus:text:1999.04.0058:entry=fhlhth/s&i=1#Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=fh=los-contents phelos]</ref><ref name="Nilsson, Vol. I p.507"/>

According to the late Jungian psychotherapist López-Pedraza, everything Hermes thieves, he later sacrifices to the gods.<ref name="RLP"/>

====Patron of thieves====
[[Autolycus]] received his skills as the greatest of thieves due to sacrificing to Hermes as his patron.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GkZJehm339wC&dq=Hermes+sacrifices+all+he+thieves+to+the+gods&pg=PA77 ''The Homeric Hymns'' (pp. 76–77)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412054911/https://books.google.com/books?id=GkZJehm339wC&dq=Hermes+sacrifices+all+he+thieves+to+the+gods&pg=PA77 |date=12 April 2023 }}, edited by [[Apostolos Athanassakis|AN Athanassakis]], JHU Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-8018-7983-3}}.</ref>

===Additional===
Other epithets included:
*'''agonios''', as president of games.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da)gw%2Fnios1 agonios]</ref>  
* '''akaketos''' "without guile", "gracious", an Homeric epithet.
* '''chthonius''' – at the festival Athenia ''Chytri'' sacrifices are made to this visage of the god only.<ref>Aristophanes, [https://archive.org/details/frogsaristophan02arisgoog/page/n383 <!-- pg=247 quote=Hermes Chthonius. --> The Frogs of Aristophanes, with Notes and Critical and Explanatory, Adapted to the Use of Schools and Universities, by T. Mitchell], John Murray, 1839.</ref><ref>GS Shrimpton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1tRf3DQycDEC&dq=Hermes+Chthonius&pg=PA264 Theopompus The Historian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430003041/https://books.google.com/books?id=1tRf3DQycDEC&dq=Hermes+Chthonius&pg=PA264 |date=30 April 2023 }}, McGill-Queens, 1991.</ref>
* '''dotor Eaon''' (δώτωρ εάων), giver of good things," an Homeric epithet.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Ddw%2Ftwr dotor eaon]</ref>
*'''eriboas''', loud shouting <ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De)ribo%2Fas eriboas]</ref>
*'''enagonios''', presiding over the games.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De)nagw%2Fnios enagonios]</ref>
*'''eriounis''', an Homeric epithet with uncertain meaning. Probably helper or bringer of good luck.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134:book=20:card=30 Iliad 20.30]</ref>
*'''eriounios''', an Homeric epithet with uncertain meaning. According to Hesychius: oùnei, deṹro, dràme. The Arcadians also oùnon, the Cypriots drómon.<ref name="ounei"/> This intepretetion relates the epithet to "move quickly".<ref>C.M.Bowra, JHS.LIV, 1934, p.68: Nilsson, Vol. I, p.501, A2</ref> 
* '''koinos''', fellowship, communion, partnership <ref>RA Bauslaugh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=IKiDIz7EWaoC&dq=hermes+Koinos&pg=PA37 The Concept of Neutrality in Classical Greece] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430003039/https://books.google.com/books?id=IKiDIz7EWaoC&dq=hermes+Koinos&pg=PA37 |date=30 April 2023 }}, University of California Press, 1991, {{ISBN|0-520-06687-1}}.</ref>
*'''kynagches''', dog throttler<ref name="Liddel Scott"/> 
* '''ploutodotes''', giver of wealth (as inventor of fire)<ref>Fiske 1865.</ref>
* '''promachos''', champion.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D22%3Asection%3D1 Pausanias 9.22.1]</ref>
* '''proopylaios''', "before the gate", "guardian of the gate";<ref>CO Edwardson (2011), ''Women and Philanthropy, tricksters and soul: re-storying otherness into crossroads of change'', Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010, p. 60.</ref> ''Pylaios'', "doorkeeper"<ref>The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies: Ithaca August 2009, Conference Paper, page 12 [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gHHkuzal164J:www.thejungiansociety.org/Jung%2520Society/e-journal/Volume-6/Fidyk-2010.pdf+&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi0SCCwioHlGLBZ7mz3yH4BJst86sZ2b3WiJujr6ZMZJz9UvApI84fyJgK5nd9Xvn-Lxm_Tt7Pz3dka1C0vEqER_vSxnps3-V4BZx6qGnruaKNZwpl5m8zs2v45T8eWN3vO3W-j&sig=AHIEtbR4is9-5V1NTob8qGnfkoU71aFlIg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010015232/https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gHHkuzal164J:www.thejungiansociety.org/Jung%2520Society/e-journal/Volume-6/Fidyk-2010.pdf+&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi0SCCwioHlGLBZ7mz3yH4BJst86sZ2b3WiJujr6ZMZJz9UvApI84fyJgK5nd9Xvn-Lxm_Tt7Pz3dka1C0vEqER_vSxnps3-V4BZx6qGnruaKNZwpl5m8zs2v45T8eWN3vO3W-j&sig=AHIEtbR4is9-5V1NTob8qGnfkoU71aFlIg|date=10 October 2013}}.</ref>
* '''sokos''' (σώκος), the strong one, an Homeric epithet.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dsw%3Dkos sokos]</ref>
* '''stropheus''',<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dstrofai%3Dos Lidell Scott]</ref>"the socket in which the pivot of the door moves" ([[Karl Kerényi|Kerényi]] in Edwardson) or "door-hinge". Protector of the door (that is the boundary), to the temple<ref name="lang" /><ref name="Roman Roman 2010">{{cite book|author1=Luke Roman|author2=Monica Roman|title=Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tOgWfjNIxoMC&pg=PT232|year=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-2639-5|pages=232ff}}</ref><ref>Sourced originally in R Davis-Floyd, P Sven Arvidson (1997).</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Raffaele Pettazzoni|title=The All-knowing God|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA165|year=1956|publisher=Arno Press|isbn=978-0-405-10559-3|page=165}}</ref><ref>CS Wright, J Bolton Holloway, RJ Schoeck – ''Tales within tales: Apuleius through time'', AMS Press, 2000, p. 23.</ref>