sche's Zarathustra, Nietzsche's Empedocles: The Time of Kings" pp. 157– 174.  Lucian, "Heracles," Volume 1, p. 63.  Lucian, "Heracles," Volume 1, p. 65.  Instructively this is a syncretistic – very fitting in the case of Lucian – representation of Hermes as Ogmios in Lucian's dialogue: Hercules. See for a summary of Lucian's description in addition to further references of which there are many, even beyond the listing provided here, and including patent connections with Hume, Jaś Elsner's chapter "Discourses of Style: 8 Babette Babich Dürer's allegory of rhetoric depicts Lucian's Hermes not only as leading his captives by the ear, chained with amber and gold chains piercing his own tongue, but as psychogogue: leading or guiding souls on their journey in this world and beyond it.24 It is as pychopompos, that Hermes appears in several of Figure 1: Albrecht Dürer, Allegorie auf die Beredsamkeit (Hermes mit vier irdischen Gestalten: Frau, Krieger, Gelehrter und Bürger) [Allegory of Eloquence (Hermes with four earthly figures: woman, knight, scholar, citizen)]. (1514) Wien Kunsthistorisches Museum. Color version courtesy of the British Museum. Public domain. Pausanias and Lucian," in his Roman Eyes: Visuality & Subjectivity in Art & Text, pp. 49–66. The tradition is a long standing one, see in French, F. Le Roux, "Les dieux celtiques aux liens: de l'Ogmios de Lucien à l'Ogmios de Dürer," pp. 209–234 as well as for discussion and further references, also Anne-Marie Favreau-Lindner, "Lucien et le mythe de 'Ηρακλῆς ὁ λόγος" in: Malika Bastin-Hammou, ed., Kaina pragmata: mélanges offerts à Jean-Claude Carrière, pp. 155– 168. See too with respect to the artist's own image, Moritz Thausing, Dürer: Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Kunst, mit Illustrationen und Titelkupfer, Vol. 1 on the cult of Mercury/Hermes, p. 297.  Additional studies connect Hume and Lucian with a death cult, not via the Kataplous and one analytically minded author strangely dismisses Annett