Hephaestus also built automatons of metal to work for him.

" son of Hephaestus " ( i. e. a bronze-smith ) was also lame.

By the Classical period, the races were run by ephebes also in honor of Hephaestus and Athena.

As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).

Temples dedicated to Hephaestus, Heracles and Asclepius were also constructed in the sacred area, which includes a sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone ( formerly known as the Temple of Castor and Pollux ); the marks of the fires set by the Carthaginians in 406 BC can still be seen on the sanctuary's stones.

* Palaemon, one of the Argonauts, son of Aetolus-not to be confused with Palaemonius, son of Hephaestus and also an Argonaut

Strabo also mentions Thermessa as sacred place of Hephaestus ( ἱερὰ Ἡφαίστου ), but it's not clear if it was a third name for the island, or just an adjective.

Scamander was also said to have attempted to kill Achilles three times, and the hero was only saved due to the intervention of Hera, Athena and Hephaestus.

In general Greek myth identifies the Cabeiri as divine craftsmen, sons or grandsons of Hephaestus, who was also chiefly worshipped on Lemnos.

The most prominent Periphetes, also known as Corynetes or the Club-Bearer, was a son of Hephaestus and Anticleia.

In Greek Mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under this mountain by Zeus, the god of the sky and thunder and god of gods and creator of mankind, and the forges of Hephaestus were said to also be located underneath it.

Greeks also considered that Hephaestus, the god of fire, sat below the volcano Etna, forging the weapons of Zeus.

It is also possible that followers of Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and the forge, practiced pyromancy.

The Hypatian Codex of the Primary Chronicle also mentions Svarog, compared to Greek Hephaestus.

Two other major religious sites, the Temple of Hephaestus ( which is still largely intact ) and the Temple of Olympian Zeus or Olympeion ( once the largest temple in mainland Greece but now in ruins ) also lay within the city walls.

The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple ; it remains standing largely as built.

Phthia is also an area in the 1988 Nintendo game " The Battle of Olympus ," a playable level where the dragon Ladon and the god Hephaestus make their homes.

As an adjective, the Greek word is applied in the sense of " light-bringing " to, for instance, the dawn, the god Dionysos, pine torches, the day ; and in the sense of " torch-bearing " as an epithet of several god and goddesses, especially Hecate but also of Artemis / Diana and Hephaestus.

There is also the Agoraios Kolonos ( Ἀγοραῖος Κολωνός, " Colonus of the Agora "), a hillock by the Athens Agora on which the temple of Hephaestus still stands.

The third, as described by Pindar, was created by the gods Hephaestus and Athena, but its architectural details included Siren-like figures or ' Enchantresses ', whose baneful songs eventually provoked the Olympian gods to bury the temple in the earth ( according to Pausanias, it was destroyed by earthquake and fire ).

Being a skilled blacksmith, Hephaestus created all the thrones in the Palace of Olympus.

In a different story, Tantalus was blamed for indirectly having stolen the dog made of gold created by Hephaestus ( god of metals and smithing ) for Rhea to watch over infant Zeus.

Talos is said to be created from a petition from Hephaestus to Zeus, to protect Europa from persons who would want to kidnap her.

At the request of his impious friend, Tantalus, Pandareus stole a bronze ( or golden ) dog from a temple to Zeus on Crete ( the dog, created by Hephaestus, had guarded Zeus during his infancy ).

The earliest examples were all presented as the results of divine intervention and include: The dry bones that came to life in the Book of Ezekiel ( Chapter 37 ); three-legged self-navigating tables created by the god Hephaestus ( Iliad xviii ); and the statue Galatea brought to life by the prayers of her creator Pygmalion.

Hephaestus created automata for his workshop: Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and, according to Hesiod, the woman Pandora.

The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues ; of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop ; of Talos, an artificial man of bronze ; and, according to Hesiod, Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus.

Bia is one of the characters named in the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, written by Aeschylus, where Hephaestus is compelled by the gods to bind Prometheus after he was caught stealing fire and offering the gift to mortals.

Talos is described by Greeks as either a gift from Hephaestus to Minos, forged with the aid of the Cyclopes in the form of a bull or a gift from Zeus to Europa.

* Baths of Heracles: Natural springs of warm water were named after Heracles, who had received them as a gift from Hephaestus.

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.

The other gods begged Hephaestus to return to Olympus to let her go, but he repeatedly refused.

As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus.

Hephaestus crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, and almost any finely-wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus.

In some myths, Hephaestus built himself a " wheeled chair " or chariot with which to move around, thus helping him overcome his lameness while demonstrating his skill to the other gods.

Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of mankind for Prometheus ' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her " seductive gifts ".

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

At the wedding, whether celebrated at Samothrace or at Thebes, all the gods were present ; Harmonia received as bridal gifts a peplos worked by Athena and a necklace made by Hephaestus.

For example, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Prometheus represented the fool character as " jesters to the gods.

Hephaestus ( Latin: Vulcan ) was the blacksmith of the gods in Greek and Roman mythology.

The story centres around John Keats first visit to see the Elgin Marbles, as the guest of Haydon, where they unexpectedly encounter the Greek gods Athena, Hephaestus, and Apollo.

Many Greek people recognized the major gods and goddesses: Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes, Demeter, Hestia and Hera though philosophies such as Stoicism and some forms of Platonism used language that seems to posit a transcendent single deity.

The Greek gods were equated with the ancient Roman deities ; Zeus with Jupiter, Hera with Juno, Poseidon with Neptune, Aphrodite with Venus, Ares with Mars, Artemis with Diana, Athena with Minerva, Hermes with Mercury, Hephaestus with Vulcan, Hestia with Vesta, Demeter with Ceres, Hades with Pluto, Tyche with Fortuna, and Pan with Faunus.

In Greek text, the names of gods are Hephaestus and Helios.

In the Greek text, the names of gods are Hephaestus and Helios.

Herodotus, for example, refers to the ancient Egyptian gods Amon, Osiris and Ptah as " Zeus ," " Dionysus " and " Hephaestus.