In the earliest times Greek divinities were worshipped in the form of a heap of stones or a shapeless column of stone or wood. In many parts of Greece there were piles of stones by the sides of roads, especially at their … See more

In ancient Greece the statues were thought to ward off harm or evil, an apotropaic function, and were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as protection, in … See more

In 415 BC, on a night shortly before the Athenian fleet was about to set sail for Syracuse as part of the Sicilian Expedition of the Peloponnesian War, all of the Athenian hermai … See more

In Plato's Hipparchus, Socrates attributes the existence of these statues to Hipparchus. They were meant to educate the people in the country, outside of Athens, and make … See more

• Boundary marker § Greece
• Crossroads (mythology)
• Cairn
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• Ancient Greek Art: Herm Statue, Theoi Project
• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities (1890), Perseus Project
• Herm (Greek religion)– Britannica Online Encyclopedia See more