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Although - or because - lame, Hephaistos is the builder and craftsman for the gods. He is also know as Hephaestus and Vulcan (Roman). His attributes in iconography include the axe and tongs.

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Images

Ancient Sources

• Return of Hephaistos to Olympos: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Return of Hephaistos to Olympos: Image
  Corinthian Amphoriskos, early 6th century BC, MM

• Return of Hephaistos to Olympos: Large image, 50% image
  Kleitias, 570 BC, MM

• Birth of Athene: Image
  Phrynos Painter, ca 560-550 BC, MM

• Return of Hephaistos to Olympos: Large image, 50% image
  Caeretan Hydria, 530 BC, MM

• Hephaistos: Image
  Ambrosios Painter, ca 525 BC, MM

• Hephaistos and Thetis: Large image, 50% image
  Dutuit Painter, ca 480 BC, MM

• Hephaistos and Thetis: Image
  Foundry Painter, ca 480 BC, MM

• The Creation of Pandora by Athene and Hephaistos: Large image, 50% image
  Tarquinia Painter, 470-460 BC, MM

• Athene and Hephaistos: Large image, 50% image
  Parthenon: East frieze, ca 438-432 BC, AS

Later Representations in Art

• Mars and Venus caught in the net and shown by Vulcan to gods: Large image, 50% image
  Heemskerk, Martin Van, 1536, MM

Also see Hephaistos texts.

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