From Ancient Olympia
Hermes of Praxiteles
Hermes by Praxiteles was sculpted in the 4th century BC out of Parian marble.
It was found in the Temple of Hera during the 1877 century excavations.
The sculpture depicts the god Hermes leaning against a tree trunk holding the infant Dionysus.
The story is that Dionysus’s mortal mother was incinerated when her lover Zeus appeared to her in his full divinity.
Zeus however managed to save Dionysus by sewing him into his own thigh until it was time for him to be born.
Zeus instructed Hermes, the messenger god, to take the infant Dionysus to Crete to be brought up by nymphs, away from the anger of Zeus’s wife, Hera.
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