place
Lemnos
also: Λῆμνος
The Aegean island dearest to Hephaestus, where Ares claims he has gone, giving Ares the opening to seduce Aphrodite in his absence.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §1.586 Lemnos
An Aegean island where, Hephaestus recalls, the Sintian people took him in after Zeus once hurled him from Olympus; later the island where the wounded Philoctetes was marooned.
- The Odyssey §8.256 Lemnos
Hephaestus's favourite island, whose (feigned) departure for it gives Ares his opening with Aphrodite.