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[[File:ACOd-Herma.jpg|thumb|250px|A herma in Greece]] | |||
The '''Herma''', also called '''hermaic pillar''', is a rectangular pillar topped with the head or bust of a divinity, usually [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermes]], used in ancient [[Greece]] to mark roads and borders, as well as to provide protection and attract fertility. | The '''Herma''', also called '''hermaic pillar''', is a rectangular pillar topped with the head or bust of a divinity, usually [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermes]], used in ancient [[Greece]] to mark roads and borders, as well as to provide protection and attract fertility. | ||
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During the [[Peloponnesian War]] the hermae were a common sight all throughout [[Greece]].<ref name="ACOd" /> | During the [[Peloponnesian War]] the hermae were a common sight all throughout [[Greece]].<ref name="ACOd" /> | ||
[[File:ACOd-Herma-decorated.jpg|thumb|center|250px|A decorated herma]] | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
Revision as of 00:56, 5 February 2019
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The Herma, also called hermaic pillar, is a rectangular pillar topped with the head or bust of a divinity, usually Hermes, used in ancient Greece to mark roads and borders, as well as to provide protection and attract fertility.
The pillars could also be seen set at crossroads, corners of the streets, in front of temples and near tombs, houses, and public places. They could also serve as sign-posts, engraved with distances, and often they were treated as altars, where people made offerings and prayed.[1]
During the Peloponnesian War the hermae were a common sight all throughout Greece.[1]
Trivia
- Historically, the hermae featured a phallus. This detail has been omitted in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.
- Alkibiades was accused of an incident when one night in Athens the city's hermae were defaced. He was convicted in absentia.