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**Hermes was perhaps the most prodigious mythological God in Greek history. Known as “God of Wisdom” in Ancient Egypt, Hermes had a striking image of a young man with brown hair, gold cap, winged sandals, and a jewelled staff. His main role as messenger was very helpful to the Greek people, as well as the other gods.** **Hermes' main role was as a messenger. As the special servant and companion of Zeus, he was very wealthy for his many favors to Zeus. He conducted the souls of the dead to the underworld and was believed to possess magical powers over sleep and dreams. Five minutes after he was born, he stole a herd of cows from Apollo, his half bro. He invented the lyre from a cow's internal fibers. After Apollo learned what happened, he knew that his half-brother should be one of the pantheons, a musician’s guild. Hermes was the patron of trickster and thieves because of his actions early in life, such as stealing many baubles and jewels from Hera, his stepmom, and also playing pranks on Zeus. He had no known love affairs.** **His playful and cheerful attitude was accepted widely in Greek culture, and many sacrifices to Hermes included cattle that have been forced to look very funny of a pose.** ** He helped out many heroes according to the myths, including Perseus, to whom he lent his sandals. Because of his many special favors to heroes and gods alike, he was very respected and loved by many in Ancient Greece **
 * Hermes  **  [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Rude-mercury.jpg/180px-Rude-mercury.jpg width="180" height="442" caption="Hermes with petasus, talaria and caduceus: Mercury fastening his sandals, by François Rude, (Musée du Louvre)" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rude-mercury.jpg"]]