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Hermes -- trickster and culture hero, divine child and patron of stealthy action, master of magic words, seducer and whisperer -- is a vital and complex figure in Greek mythology. Shepherd, craftsman, herald, musician, athlete, merchant -- who is this tricky shapechanger confronting us at every turn? This classic, prescient work (first published in 1947) foreshadows all subsequent work greeting the return of the gods. Brown asks whether Hermes the Thief is the prototype, from which the Trickster was derived by extension and analogyor is the notion of trickery fundamental, and that of theft merely a specific manifestation of it?" Brown deals with myth and cult, art and ritual, gods and goddesses as he traces the evolution of Hermes from sacred stoneheap and phallus to the Homeric Hymn to Hermes and the Hesiodic poems. Hermes the Thief should be of fundamental interest to anyone concerned with mythology, Greek religion, or Hermeticism.

Who reads Hermes the Thief : the Evolution of a Myth?

Author

Norman Oliver Brown

Publisher

Lindisfarne Books

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780940262263

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.6 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13