Hermon
(Ἕρμων) is described by Thucydides as commander of the detachment of περίπολοι, or frontier guards, stationed at Munychia, and as taking in this capacity a prominent part in the sedition against the Four Hundred which Theramenes and Aristocrates excited in Peiraeeus, B. C. 411. Thucydides had just mentioned the assassination of Phrynichus by one of the περίπολοι, and from a confusion perhaps of the two passages comes the statement of Plutarch (Plut. Alc. 100.25), that the assassin was Hermon, and that he received a crown in honour of it. Such a supposition is wholly inconsistent alike with the historian's narrative and the facts mentioned by the orators. (Lys. c. Agorat. p. 492; Lycurgus, ad Leocr. p. 217.) It is hardly even a plausible hypothesis to identify him with the commander of the περίπολοι, at whose house, it appeared by the confession of an accomplice, secret meetings had been held. (Thuc. 8.92.) But he is probably the same who is mentioned in the inscription (Böckh, Inscr. Graec. i. p. 221), which records the monies paid by the keepers of the treasury of Athena in the Acropolis during the year beginning at Midsummer B. C. 410. One of the earliest items is "to Hermon for his command at Pylos." The place was taken no long time after, probably in the next winter but one. [A.H.C]
(Ἕρμων), or, as some write it, HERMONAX, a Greek grammarian, who made the dialect spoken in the island of Crete his particular study, and wrote a dictionary (Κρητικαὶ γλῶσσαι), in which he explained the words peculiar to that dialect, as well as those which were used by the Cretans in a peculiar sense. The work is often referred to by Athenaeus, who sometimes calls the author Hermon (iii. p. 81, vi. p. 267), and sometimes Hermonax (ii. p.53, iii. p. 76, xi. p. 502), but which of the two forms of the name is the correct one is uncertain. (Comp. Fischer, Animadv. in Welleri Grammat. Graec. i p. 49.) Lucian (Conviv. s. Lapith. 6) mentions an Epicurean philosopher of the name of Hermon, who is otherwise unknown. [L.S]
(Ἕρμων.) Artists.
1. A statuary of Troezen, who made a statue of Apollo and wooden images of the Dioscuri in the temple of Apollo at Troezen. He seems to belong to a very ancient period. (Paus. 2.31.9.)
2. An architect. [Pyrrhus.]
3. An artist, who is said to have invented a sort of masks, which were called after him Ἑρμώιεια. (Etym. Mag. s. v.) Probably the name is merely mythical. [P.S]
HERMON [ANTILIBANUS]
- Paus. 2.31.6
- statue of: Paus. 10.9.7ff.
- architect: Paus. 6.19.8