Dionysus Bacchus - God of Wine, Fertility - Hermes Mercury - God of Travelers, Shepherds - Ceramic plates - Small - Handmade in Greece

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Diameter: 10 cm - 3,9 inches
Total Weight: 160 g
Material: clay, paint, ceramic, terracotta

DIONYSOS (Dionysus) was the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. He was depicted as either an older, bearded god or an effeminate, long-haired youth. His attributes included the thyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff), a drinking cup and a crown of ivy. He was usually accompanied by a troop of Satyrs and Mainades (wild female devotees).

Hermes was the ancient Greek god of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, language, thieves, and travel. One of the cleverest and most mischievous of the Olympian gods, he was the patron of shepherds, invented the lyre, and was, above all, the herald and messenger of Mt. Olympus so that he came to symbolise the crossing of boundaries in his role as a guide between the two realms of gods and humanity. To the Romans, the god was known as Mercury.