He fathered the founder of Cydonia with Minos's daughter Acacallis, while his dalliance with a naiad often thought to be equivalent to Muta or Tacita made him the father of the Lares.
The Homeric Hymn to this figure describes how he and a foe both encounter a man tilling his fields on the grassy plain of Onchestus. He fathered the founder of Cydonia with Minos's daughter Acacallis, while his dalliance with a naiad often thought to be equivalent to Muta or Tacita made him the father of the Lares. This figure, who changed the Minyades into bats, was forced to kill Hierax with a stone in one story. Envy's poison once caused Aglaurus to occupy a threshhold in an attempt to prevent this figure from marrying Herse. Another of his adventures saw him thwart (*) Circe's magic by giving the herb moly to Odysseus. This killer of Argus Panoptes was also the father of the master thief Autolycus. He was born on Mount Cyllene, where one day later he invented the lyre. For 10 points, name this son of Maia who wore a winged hat and winged sandals in his role as messenger of the Greek gods.
The Homeric Hymn to this figure describes how he and a foe both encounter a man tilling his fields on the grassy plain of Onchestus.
{Hermes} [or {Mercury}]