Kerenyi, Karl

Hermes; guide of souls - Zurich, Switzerland Spring c1976 - vi, 104p.; bibliog. notes

Author also credited as Carl Kerenyi. Trans. from the German by Murray Stein from Hermes der Seelenfuhrer, Albae Vigilae I, Rhein Verlag, Zurich, 1944.

Part 1: The Hermes of classical tradition. 1 The "Hermes Idea". 2 The Hermes of the Iliad. 3 The Hermes of the Odyssey. 4 The Hermes of the hymn. 5 Hermes and the night. Part 2: The Hermes of life and death. 1 Hermes and Eros. 2 Hermes and the Goddesses. 3 The mystery of the Herm. 4 Hermes and the ram. 5 Silenos and Hermes

'Elaboration of a lecture on Hermes held in 1942 at Eranos.'

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Hermes (Greek deity)