num_pages: 48
description: Barbara Cooney's illustrations add a new and exciting dimension to this translation, especially adapted for children, of one of the oldest known stories of the ancient Greeks. Hermes, the sly, clever quick-tongued messenger of the gods; Maia, his patient and rather beaten-down mother; Apollo, full of his own grandeur and self-importance: these and the other characters are almost uncannily alive. A complex mixture of good and bad, of brilliance and stupidity, of greed and generosity, over two thousand years after the poem was written they are still, all of them, entirely believable and totally human.
language: English
title: Hermes, Lord of Robbers: Homeric Hymn Number Four
titlecomplete: Hermes, Lord of Robbers: Homeric Hymn Number Four
genres: Picture Books
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Doubleday & Company