Who Is Phaedrus?: Keys to Plato's Dyad Masterpiece
Marshell Carl Bradley
4 A Herm was a sculpture with a head above a plain lower section, usually squared off, on which male genitals were carved. Debra Hamel describes Herms as “like big Pez dispensers with penises” (Hamel, The Mutilation of the Herms, 1).