The son of Zeus and Maia, Hermes, can be described as a very cunning god. While Hermes was just an infant, he displayed his cunning qualities. Hermes escaped his crib, walked from Mount Cyllene to Pieria, and found (his brother) Apollo’s cattle. He decided to steal the cattle with an extremely clever plan. In order to ensure he would not be followed, infant Hermes somehow padded the cattle’s feet (to stifle the sound) and drove fifty of them backwards. When Hermes saw a tortoise on his way home, he created the first lyre using the tortoise’s shell and the leather strips from the cattle. After seeing Hermes’s lyre, Apollo was enrage. But Hermes was so clever that he pretended to sleep while he hid the lyre under his arm. Hermes’s cleverness
