Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.297 son of Maia

  Messenger god, sent by Jupiter to make the Carthaginians receive the Trojans kindly.

• The Aeneid §4.222 Mercury

  Messenger of the gods (the Cyllenian); Jupiter sends him to order Aeneas to sail.

• The Aeneid §8.138 Mercury

  Messenger-god, son of Jupiter and Maia, father of Evander.