A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 475
vhours old he went to Pieria, carriedoff the oxen of Apollo and drove themto Pylos. When he returned to hiscave he found a tortoise at the mouthof it, which he made into a lyre, byplacing strings across its shell. Apolloknew Avho had stolen the oxen andcame to demand them, but Maia shoAvedhim the… … was made the herald of the gods, es- Hermes. (Museo liorbonico.) 458 ANCIENT MYTHS pecially of Zeus; and as the heralds speak publicly, he was the godof eloquence, — the god who protected travellers, and the god ofcommerce. His statue was erected on roads, at gates, and doors.He was the god of…
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