Hermes was usually depicted as a young, athletic man lacking a beard. When represented as Logios (Greek: ??????, speaker), his attitude is consistent with the attribute. Hermes Ludovisi by Phidias or Myron possibly represent beardless Hermes Logios. Praxiteles showed him with the baby Dionysus in his arms.

At all times, however, through the Hellenistic periods,