Hermesalso known as Mercury, Wayfinder, and Prince of Thieveshas many talents. Wearing his famed winged sandals, he does the bidding of his father Zeus, leads the dead down to Hades, and practices his favorite arts of trickery and theft. He also sees the future, travels invisibly, loves jokes, and abhors violence. And hes an entertaining and ideal narrator on a fast-paced journey through ancient Greek mythologyfrom Medusas cave to Trojan War battlefields to the mysterious Underworld. Stephanie Spinner brings the famous messengerand the best-known gods and mortals of mythologyto life with high action and spare, powerful prose.From the Hardcover edition.