Babylonian Origin of Hermes the Snake-God, and of the Caduceus ISBN: 9781463220525 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Gorgias Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
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.