Hermes Logios type
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The Hermes Logios type is a statue type amongst representations of the Greek god Hermes
Hermes
Hermes is the great messenger of the gods in Greek mythology and a guide to the Underworld. Hermes was born on Mount Kyllini in Arcadia. An Olympian god, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of the cunning of thieves, of orators and...

, showing him in the form of Hermes Logios. It was first raised for the Athenian dead of the battle of Coronea
Battle of Coronea (447 BC)
The Battle of Coronea took place between the Athenian-led Delian League and the Boeotian League in 447 BC during the First Peloponnesian War....

 (447 BC
447 BC
Year 447 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Iullus...

). Examples include:
  • 'Hermes Logios
    Hermes Logios (sculpture)
    Hermes Logos is a statue of Hermes of the Hermes Logios type in the Ludovisi Collection of the Palazzo Altemps , Rome, Italy. It is a marble Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC, perhaps by Phidias...

    ' at Rome
  • 'Marcellus as Hermes Logios
    Marcellus as Hermes Logios
    Marcellus as Hermes Logios, sculpture of Marcellus the Younger as Hermes Logios, the god of eloquence. It was executed in marble circa 20 BC , and was signed by Cleomenes the Athenian.Before 1590 it was housed in Pope Sixtus V's villa on the...

    ' at the Louvre
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