# Hermes — Discourses character guide

> Hermes in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Messenger god, invoked in discussions of divine will.

## In the story

### [That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xx-that-we-can-derive-advantage-from-all-external-things)

Referenced for the rod of Hermes that turns everything to gold, used as a metaphor for transforming externals into good.

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