Daphnis, a man with this profession, is blinded for being unfaithful and falls off a cliff, where a spring emerges and he is taken to heaven. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this profession. Most of the characters in Virgil’s Eclogues, like Corydon, have this profession, whose patron is Pan.
ANSWER: shepherd [prompt on farmer]
[10m] The shepherd Endymion is made to forever perform this action on Mount Latmus, where he is watched by the moon goddess Selene. Gates of horn and ivory are outside the residence of a god of this action.
ANSWER: sleeping [or dreaming]
[10e] A depiction of this Greek god as a shepherd is inspired by a tale where he saved a city from a plague by running around its walls carrying a lamb. This father of Daphnis wears winged sandals and carries a caduceus.
ANSWER: Hermes [reject “Mercury”]
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