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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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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.3.5

• Hesiod: Theogony 925

• Homer: Odyssey 8.295

Domain

• Plato: Critias 109c

• Plato: Laws 920d

• Plato: Symposium 197b

• Hesiod: Theogony 865

• Homeric Hymn 20.1

Some Things He Made

• Pausanias 7.19.6

• Pausanias 9.40.11

• Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 240

• Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 297

• Homer: Iliad 2.100

• Homer: Iliad 15.310

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Aglaea: Hesiod: Theogony 945

• Anticlia -> Periphetes: Apollodorus 3.16.1

• Aphrodite: Homer: Odyssey 8.265, Homer: Odyssey 8.295, Homer: Odyssey 8.343

• Athene -> Erichthonius: Apollodorus 3.14.6

• Charis (Grace): Homer: Iliad 18.380, Pausanias 9.35.4

• ? -> Ardalus: Pausanias 2.31.3

• ? -> Palaemon: Apollodorus 1.9.16

Other Encounters

• Achilles: Apollodorus e.4.7

• Aeetes: Apollodorus 1.9.23

• Athene: Apollodorus 2.5.6, Pindar: Olympian 7.32

• Cadmus: Apollodorus 3.4.2

• Dionysos: Pausanias 1.20.3

• Giants: Apollodorus 1.6.2

• Hera: Pausanias 1.20.3, Plato: Republic 378d, Homeric Hymn 3b.305, Homer: Iliad 1.570

• Heracles: Apollodorus 2.4.11, Apollodorus 2.5.10, Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 120

• Idaeus: Homer: Iliad 5.10

• Minos: Apollodorus 1.9.26

• Pandora: Hesiod: Works and Days 60

• Pelops: Apollodorus e.2.9

• Poseidon: Apollodorus 1.4.4

• Prometheus: Apollodorus 1.7.1

• Thetis: Pausanias 5.19.8, Homeric Hymn 3b.305, Homer: Iliad 18.140, Homer: Iliad 18.365, Homer: Iliad 18.388, Homer: Iliad 18.428, Homer: Iliad 18.462, Homer: Iliad 18.590

• Zeus: Apollodorus 1.4.1

Also see Hephaistos images.

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