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# “Two Hermeses”: guide Nikolaos Zafeiropoulos beside the statue of Hermes in an Athens museum, 1935
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/germes-v-mramore-i-germes-vo-ploti/
- Published: 2024-04-22T08:04:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:38:52.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Art, Museums, Humour

Hermes in Marble and Hermes in the Flesh.

In 1935 the photojournalist Vasilios Tsakirakis took a photograph of a stranger in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The man, who turned out to be a guide named Nikolaos Zafeiropoulos, proved to be uncannily like the statue of Hermes, a copy of a sculpture by Praxiteles, beside which he was standing.

And so this picture, "Two Hermeses", came to be.