How Is Hermes Greedy

Once upon a time, there was a powerful god named Hermes, who lived as an infamous citizen of Olympus. He was well known as the God of Thievery as his powers allowed him to steal any dead object just by looking at it. Along with his greedy personality, Hermes got himself into various troubles with the other Olympus Gods as he stole their possessions. But Hermes always managed to escape every bit of trouble by utilizing his supreme athletics skills combined with his winged sandals, no one was a match for Hermes when it came to running away.

One day, Hermes, being the greedy fellow he is, laid his eyes on Zeus' lightning bolt. As expected, the lightning bolt was in Hermes possession in a blink of an eye. Later that day, Zeus was furious and absolutely fed up with Hermes'
So, he banished Hermes down to Earth and said that Hermes was only to return when he learns how to use his powers for good. Although Hermes was out of Olympus, it did not stop him from stealing. He continued traveling from town to town, city to city, stealing every single object he desired, but very soon, he was bored of everything as he was much more powerful than all human beings and nothing seemed to satisfy his greed. So he sat down against a wall next to some homeless people in Rome, as he wanted to take a quick nap. "Move out the way!" shouted a roman soldier, Hermes opened his eyes slowly and saw from afar in a distant crowd, a small child running away from some Roman soldiers as it seemed that the child had stolen some bread. The child ran towards his mother, who was lying on the ground a few meters away from Hermes, in critical condition as she was suffering from famine, and gave her the stolen bread. Soon after, the Roman soldiers arrived, and was ready to take the child away as he acted against the law. At this very moment, Hermes looked into the child's teary eyes, fear, anger, distress, were all