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Most common depiction of Hermes: A young man, wearing travelling clothes, a flat hat known as "petasus" and winged sandals on his feet. Oftentimes he was also considered to have wings attached to his shoulders and hat. Hermes usually held a winged staff with snakes wrapped around it in his hands in order to gain access everywhere.

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Hermes playing around in Mount Olympus, detail of the painting "Olympus" by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Museo Del Prado, Madrid, Spain Hermes guideing the herds of Apollo. Oil painting by Claude Lorraine (around 1645) Statue of Hermes with a ram, around 500 B.C.. Found in Troezen, Greece Statue of the greek god Hermes by Praxiteles holding the infant Dionysus in hs hand. 400 B.C., museum of Olympia Greek god Hermes sitting on a rock and giving advice to a dead. Lekythos on a white ground, around 450 B.C. Staatliche Antikensammlungen , Muenchen Germany Hermes brings a dead woman to the river Styx, where the ugly ferryman Charon waits to take her to the other side. 450-430 BC. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich Germany Hermes head on a greek 5-lepta stamp  Detail of a lekythos, depicting Hermes wearing a chlamys and petasos and bearing a kerykeion. Greek, Attic, c. 480-470 BC. Red figure. Attributed to the Tithonos Painter.
Source:Wikimedia Commons Hermes Propylaios, 1st century B.C., Alkamenes Archaistic style. Museum of Acropolis, Athens Greece Hermes, Orpheus and Eurydice. Relief of 410 B.C. Statue of god Hermes,found in Aegion,Greece

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