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Hermes: the god of Merchants, Thieves and Travelers

The Ancient Greek god Hermes was the patron god of merchants, thieves and travelers. In Greek Mythology, his mother was Maia and his father Zeus. He started his career very early, by stealing Apollo’s heifers. In honor of this attainment he was proclaimed the patron of thieves. Because he was god of travelers his pillar was at all crossroads. Hermes was also the messenger of the gods and the conductor of the dead to Hades. He is the only god that achieved the immortality as a result of contract. In this text I intend to give overview of Hermes’s achievements about which we can read in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

Hermes, merchants, gods

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