god
Hephaestus
also: Ἥφαιστος
God of fire and the forge, son of Hera. Hymn 20 hymns him as the teacher, with Athena, of civilizing crafts to humankind; Hymn 3 has Hera recall throwing him into the sea for his lameness, and Hymn 4 uses his name in a poetic figure for fire itself.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.313 Hephaestus
God of fire and the forge, son of Hera. Hymn 20 hymns him as the teacher, with Athena, of civilizing crafts to humankind; Hymn 3 has Hera recall throwing him into the sea for his lameness, and Hymn 4 uses his name in a poetic figure for fire itself.
- The Iliad §1.568 Hephaestus
The lame smith-god; in Book 1 he defuses a quarrel between his parents Zeus and Hera with wine and comic bustling, and in Book 18 forges Achilles's new armor, including the great shield, at Thetis's request.
- The Odyssey §4.611 the work of Hephaestus
God of the forge, credited as maker of the fine silver-and-gold mixing-bowl Menelaus gives Telemachus.
- The Odyssey §8.256 Hephaestus
The lame smith-god who traps his wife Aphrodite and her lover Ares in an invisible net as revenge for their adultery.
Mentioned in 3 works (49 mentions)
The Iliad
- §1.568 Hephaestus
- §1.595 Hephaestus
- §2.84 Hephaestus
- §5.1 Hephaestus
- §8.185 Hephaestus
- §9.460 Hephaestus
- §14.147 Hephaestus
- §14.233 Hephaestus
- §14.329 Hephaestus
- §15.207 Hephaestus
- §15.300 Hephaestus
- §17.82 Hephaestus
- §18.128 Hephaestus
- §18.140 Hephaestus
- §18.188 Hephaestus
- §18.368 Hephaestus
- §18.388 Hephaestus
- §18.392 Hephaestus
- §18.429 Hephaestus
- §18.468 Hephaestus
- §19.349 Hephaestus
- §19.8 Hephaestus
- §20.1 Hephaestus
- §20.31 Hephaestus
- §21.324 Hephaestus
- §21.342 Hephaestus
- §21.357 Hephaestus
- §21.369 Hephaestus
- §21.379 Hephaestus
- §21.381 Hephaestus
- §22.306 Hephaestus
- §23.24 Hephaestus