Editing Herm (sculpture) (section)

==Art and popular culture==
In Plato's ''[[Hipparchus (dialogue)|Hipparchus]]'', Socrates attributes the existence of these statues to Hipparchus. They were meant to educate the people in the country, outside of Athens, and make them admire Hipparchus' wisdom over the wisdom of the Delphic inscriptions. Hence he ordered the carvings of the following two inscriptions: "This is a memorial to Hipparchus: Walk thinking just thoughts" and "This is a memorial to Hipparchus: Don't deceive a friend" (229a–b). Socrates is making fun of Hipparchus, and his interlocutor, by this account.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0176%3Atext%3DHipparch.%3Asection%3D229a |author=Plato |title=Hipparchus |at=229a |translator-first=W. R. M. |translator-last=Lamb |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1955 |via=Perseus Digital Library}}</ref>

The [[J. Paul Getty Museum]] in Los Angeles has a large collection of Roman Herma boundary marker stones in its stored collection.

An [[Aesop's fable]] makes fun of a [[The Statue of Hermes#2 Hermes and the dog|statue of Hermes]]. When a pious dog offers to "anoint" it, the god hastily assures his worshipper that this is not necessary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/308.htm|title=Hermes and the Dog|work=Aesopica}}</ref>

In the fantasy novel ''[[Lud-in-the-mist]]'' by [[Hope Mirrlees]] the main character unearths an important object by digging beneath an object called both a "[[berm]]" and a "herm". It is described as "the tree yet not a tree, the man yet not a man".<ref>{{cite book |title=Lud-in-the-Mist |first=Hope |last=Mirrlees |year=2013 |orig-year=first published 1926 |isbn=978-1-4405-4338-8 |page=220 |publisher=Gallery}}</ref><!--

In the 2022 space opera novel ''[[Hidden Solace]]'' by [[Karl Drinkwater]], one of the AIs recreates ancient Athens and uses hermae to redirect another AI: "A Herm whose erect phallus faces north. He's probably only just noticed that each penis points in the direction I predicted VigMAX would head in his attempts to reach my temple."<ref>{{cite book |isbn=978-1-911278-36-8 |page=213 |title=Hidden Solace |first=Karl |last=Drinkwater |year=2022 |publisher=Organic Apocalypse}}</ref>
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