There was an ancient way of celebrating the memory of men who deserved well of the state. A statue in a style which was then called Hermes, the head and shoulders of a man standing upon a square pillar. Those shoulders were without arms and hands [20]
Ancient Athenians constructed their prison in about 450BC, an edifice which they called "The Peoples Thing"
Some Athenians & foreign residents were denounced for allegedly committing gross sacrilege by profaning the aweful mysteries of Eleusis in unlicensed private celebrations or by mutilating the ithyphallic images sacred to Hermes, the god of travel & other social commerce.
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