Babylonian Origin of Hermes the Snake-God, and of the Caduceus
ISBN: 9781463220525
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Gorgias Press
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Arthur Frothingham, one of the founding fathers of Art History, here discusses the origins of Hermes, and suggests that the prototype of Hermes was an Eastern deity of Babylonian extraction.

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