Hermes holding infant Dionysus, c340 BC. Hermes probably held grapes in his raised hand, dangling them in front of the baby Dionysus. The statue was found in the temple of Hera at Olympia, where Pausanias saw it in the second century AD. He says it is a work of Praxiteles - the famous Athenian sculptor of the fourth century BC.

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Hermes holding infant Dionysus, c340 BC. Hermes probably held grapes in his raised hand, dangling them in front of the baby Dionysus. The statue was found in the temple of Hera at Olympia, where Pausanias saw it in the second century AD. He says it is a work of Praxiteles - the famous Athenian sculptor of the fourth century BC.

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