Mercury is a messenger who wore winged sandals, and a god of trade, merchants, and travel, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman Folklore.
The root of the idea of Mercury lies in Greek folklore with the messenger god, Hermes.
The Romans, whose culture was in many ways derivative of the Greeks, borrowed the old stories from the Greek God Hermes and laid them on top of their own similar god, Mercury.
The process by which this was done is now shrouded somewhat by the mists of time, suffice it to say that these two names came to be recognized as designating one and the same being...
In Virgil's Aeneid, Mercury reminds Aeneas of his mission to found the city of Rome.
In Ovid's Fasti, Mercury is assigned to escort the nymph Larunda to the underworld.
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