Hermes
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Arcadia and the Greek world
- Greek
God of boundaries and everything that crosses them: roads, trade, translation, theft, and the passage of the dead. Stole cattle on the day he was born.
Known for
- messenger and psychopomp
- patron of thieves and traders
- the herm at the boundary
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.