In the stories of Herakles he plays an important part, as also in those of Theseus and other heroes, and he is frequently visible in scenes from the Trojan legends. He conveys the infant Herakles to Cheiron for instruction,[604] and conducts the hero to Hades to fetch Kerberos[605]; he is also seen feasting or bathing with him,[606] and in company with him and Athena,[607] and most frequently in connection with his apotheosis.[608] With Theseus he is found more rarely[609]; but he frequently accompanies Perseus in his flight from the Gorgons.[610] In other heroic scenes he is often one of the spectator deities on Apulian vases. In one instance he is seen banqueting with an unidentified hero.[611]
In the Trojan legends his chief appearance is as conductor of the goddesses to the Judgment of Paris[612]; and in one case he accompanies Peleus when bringing the infant Achilles to Cheiron.[613] He also assists Zeus in weighing the souls of Achilles and Hector,[614] conducts Priam to Achilles,[615] and is present in many other scenes which need not be recounted in detail. A scene difficult of explanation represents him accompanying Odysseus in a chariot.[616]
A Herm or terminal figure of Hermes is a not uncommon feature on vases, especially of the R.F. period,[617] and generally as the object of a sacrifice made to it.[618]
Last of the Olympian deities comes =Hestia=, who is usually coupled with Hermes; she, however, only appears on a few vases in gatherings of the Olympian deities,[619] as on the François vase, where she attends the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis, and at the marriage of Herakles and Hebe.[620]
Schreiber, _Alexandr. Toreutik, passim_; Robert in _50^{ tes} Winckelmannsfestprogr._ 1890.
Suet. _Ner._ 47: see Vol. I. pp. 134, 185, 499.
Cf. Miss Harrison, _Mythol. and Monum. of Athens_, p. ii; and see Vol. I. p. 13.
See on this subject _J.H.S._ xiii. p. 83.
See Luckenbach in _Jahrb. für Class. Phil._ Suppl.-Bd. xi. (1880), p. 575 ff.
The only exceptions are in the Panathenaic contests, which are of course not epic: cf. B.M. B 130–31.
See on this subject _Comm. in hon. T. Mommseni_, p. 163 ff.; _Arch. Zeit._ 1876, p. 116; Dumont-Pottier, i. p. 366, and, _J.H.S._ x. p. 13 ff.