but didn't Hermes/Mercury have wings on their heels and helmets?

But this statue has a winged Eros fro C2ndAD

It appears that whoever it was who wrote that ancient depictions of Greek and Roman deities were always wingless was full of...was wrong.

Thanks for digging that up, BD. Much appreciated.

When she gets on the topic my wife just sit back and let her go.

take it all in. How cool that your daughter is into Greek mythology!

Something about two snakes versus one snake.

I'm going to have to do some serious googling!

But I meant to post this in the Lounge, not in GD, where lots of real stuff is happening.

I have studied Greek Mythology since 4th grade. (Thanks to Wonder Woman!). Besides, Eros, Nike, Goddess of Victory, was often portrayed as winged. Hermes had his helmet, but there are some statues where he had winged sandals, and some, where the sandals were missing but the wings were not (attached on his ankles). The furies are often shown with wings (not always), so are the Gorgon sisters. The God of the Western winds, Zephyros, had wings, as did the god of sleep, Hypnos. Personified death, Thantos, was shown with wings (an Angel of Death), but I honestly have only seen a few examples of it.

post to my son who got me going on the wing thing today.

I have a little statue of Pan comforting Psyche after his nymphs rescued her from drowning when, according to some versions of the story, she fell or jumped into a river - or angry Eros intentionally dropped her as he was flying her back to her people. I'll see if I can find a picture of the statue online and post it. Psyche was a human princess, but in the statue she has wings. What do you think about a winged Psyche? Did her marrying Eros make her a deity? Maybe the sculptor, Begas, just felt like giving her wings.

Pan Comforting Psyche
Reinhold Begas 1857 - 1858

From the collection of
Alte Nationalgalerie, National Museums in Berlin

Takes my breath away

Design Toscano. It's my favorite.

https://www.designtoscano.com/product/pan+comforts+psyche+bonded+natural+marble+resin+statue++-+wu73382.do

Edit to add Eos, Goddess of Dawn and Iris, Goddess of Rainbows and a messenger.

I googled them, and sure enough...wings!

Thanks very much, suffragette.

She was Greek and and her first name was Urania.
She was adept at languages and could translate on her own.
She taught her classes with gusto and humor and never shied away from the raunchy bits.
She was quite demanding and her tests were extremely challenging. That’s why I still remember Eos; she was in a few vivid myths.
She was also thoughtful and caring and introduced me to the works of Marie de France when I spoke to her about not feeling drawn to any of her pre-approved topics for the final Chaucer paper. Glad she did and well worth the extra reading and analysis I undertook to do that.

I still remember seeing the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre the first time I went to Paris. So beautiful I gasped.

Found a lovely video here that shows her well:

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It's about DNA helix's from way before the Greek civilization, inscribed on clay tablets during Sumerian times.

Amazing! That is really something! I just found out (Google) it was a few thousand years BC!

Thanks!