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    Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, also known as the Hermes of Praxiteles or the Hermes of Olympia is an ancient Greek sculpture of Hermes and the infant...
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    Praxiteles (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and indefinable charm as the Hermes and the Infant Dionysus. Among the most notable of these are the Apollo Sauroktonos, or the lizard-slayer, which portrays...
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    gave the infant Dionysus to the care of Hermes. Hermes gave Dionysus to the Lamides, or daughters of Lamos, who were river nymphs. But Hera drove the Lamides...
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    Archaeological Museum of Olympia (category Buildings and structures in Elis)
    pieces in the museum are Hermes and the Infant Dionysus (attributed to Praxiteles), some objects from the Temple of Zeus, the Nike of Paionios, as well...
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    portal Hermes of Aegium Hermes of Messene Hermes Criophorus (Athens) Hermes and the Infant Dionysus No 218 back when kept in the NAMA. "Hermes of Andros"...
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    Contrapposto (category Italian words and phrases)
    clearly seen in the Roman copies of the statues of Hermes and Heracles. A famous example is the marble statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus in Olympia...
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    him as being "foreign" and "new", the name is Greek and other sources consider it an epithet of Dionysus, Helios, or Pluto. The case against Phryne was...
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    family of the Venus Pudica. His Hermes and the Infant Dionysus illustrates his mastery in depicting the facial expression and grace of flexible, sinuous bodies...
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    that of Hermes in a sculpture of Hermes and Dionysius by Praxiteles, now best known from the copy Hermes and the Infant Dionysus rediscovered in the 19th...
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    a figure of Hermes carrying the child Dionysus, unless ancient critics have made two works of one. He sculpted certain statues for the city of Megalopolis...
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    busts and figurines, rather than carved. Venus de Milo Peplos Kore Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon Statue of Augustus from Prima Porta Hermes and the Infant Dionysus...
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    Hermes as psychopompus; it is directly influenced by the Hermes and the Infant Dionysus of Praxiteles. The sculpture was bought for Pope Paul III in 1543,...
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    portal Greece portal Visual arts portal Atalante Hermes Hermes and the Infant Dionysus Hermes Criophorus Hermes of Aegium Arapogianni, X. (2019). Αρχαιολογικό...
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    prehistory to the present; the oldest-known statue dating to about 30,000 years ago. Statues represent many different people and animals, real and mythical...
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    The Grave relief of Thraseas and Euandria; 375-350 BC; Pentelic marble; height: 160 cm, width: 91 cm; Pergamon Museum (Berlin) Hermes and the Infant Dionysus;...
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    State. May 8 - Hermes and the Infant Dionysus (attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles, 4th century BC) is first uncovered at the site of the Temple of Hera...
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    Caduceus (redirect from Staff of Hermes)
    shell, which Hermes kindly gave to him. Apollo in return gave Hermes the caduceus as a gesture of friendship. The association with the serpent thus connects...
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    Maenad (redirect from The maenads)
    Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name, which...
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  • produced and broadcast by the Greek television network Skai TV, based on the BBC's equivalent show 100 Greatest Britons. The show features lists and biographies...
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    Hades (redirect from Pluto and Proserpina)
    (Zagreus-Dionysus), also known as Liknites, the helpless infant form of that Deity who is the unifier of the dark underworld (chthonic) realm of Hades and the...
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    Priapus (category Children of Hermes)
    varying sources as the son of Aphrodite by Dionysus; as the son of Dionysus and Chione; as perhaps the father or son of Hermes; or as the son of Zeus or Pan...
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    figures (Apollo Saurochthonus, 360 BC; Resting Satyr, 365 BC; Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, 340 BC), with graceful movements, with a latent sensuality...
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    Hermaphroditus (category Children of Hermes)
    was one of the Erotes. Because Hermaphroditus was a child of Hermes, and consequently a great-grandchild of Atlas (Hermes's mother Maia was the daughter...
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     530 BCE) Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles The Marathon Boy (4th century BCE) bronze statue, possibly by Praxiteles Hermes, possibly...
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  • nursemaid of the infant Zeus Cyllene, the mountain-nymph who nursed the infant Hermes Echo (Ηχώ), a nymph cursed never to speak except to repeat the words of...
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  • They were instructed by Zeus to guard the infant Dionysus, protecting him from the machinations of Hera, but the enraged goddess transformed them into...
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    from the Hermes and the Infant Dionysus whose attribution to Praxiteles is itself highly controversial. Moreover, the heavily damaged state of the head...
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    Georg Treu (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany)
    Statue and Bust Form), 1875. Available (print-on-demand) from the University of Michigan Library. Hermes mit dem Dionysosknaben (Hermes and the Infant Dionysus)...
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    Ganymede at the heavenly feast. Ancient art sometimes depicted ambrosia as distributed by the nymph named Ambrosia, a nurse of Dionysus. Ambrosia is...
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  • Zagreus (category Cult of Dionysus)
    serpent, producing Dionysus. He is taken to Mount Ida where (like the infant Zeus) he is guarded by the dancing Curetes. Zeus intended Dionysus to be his successor...
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