Caduceus

Hellenic religion

• Caduceus appears in Hellenic religion.

  Pausanias describes Hermes images bearing the twinned-snake staff among Greek sanctuaries. A named caduceus in that periegesis, not Asklepios’s single serpent-staff and not a modern medical logo dump.

  from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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• Caduceus is sacred to Hermes.

  Iliad 24 has Hermes take up his wand (ῥάβδος) when he escorts Priam through the Achaean camp. A named herald-wand sacred to Hermes in that epic, not a medical staff dump and not the Hymn talaria as this edge.

  from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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• Caduceus is used in Hellenic religion.

  Iliad 24 has Hermes use his wand to guide and quiet the way when Priam enters the Achaean camp. A named Homeric caduceus in escort use, not sacred_to→hermes alone and not a Pausanias herm-display dump alone.

  from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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Roman religion

• Caduceus appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid Book 4 seats Mercury’s wand (virga) as he descends to order Aeneas’s departure from Carthage. A named herald-wand in that epic, not talaria as the sandals beside it and not a medical staff dump.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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