Hephaestus
by CTCWeb Editors
Associated Items and Beings
A god or goddess alone is inadequately defined since the people, beings, animals and things associate with a god or goddess say a lot about them. Through visual aids and texts, students can learn about the whole god or goddess by the items, people, beings, animals and things that accompany them or that are used in the exploits.
Below are citations for selected vases, coins, sculpture and text that demonstrate and explain the people, beings, animals and things associated with Hephaestus. Each representative citation has been selected for its image clarity and description.
Athena -Parthenon EF.5.33-37. Boston 00.330. Apollodorus 3.14.6. Homer Odyssey Book 6.333. Pausanias 1.14.6. Pausanias 3.18.13. Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.34. Plato, Critias, 109c-109d. Plato, Protagoras, 321c.
Hera -Florence 4209, Vase Description. Apollodorus 1.3.5. Hesiod, Theogony 928a. Homer Iliad Book 14.166-169, 14.238-241. Pausanias 1.20.3. Pausanias 3.18.16.
Aphrodite -Florence 4209, Vase Description. Homer Odyssey Book 8.266-369
Fire -Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 1-10, 368. Apollodorus 1.9.23. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 281. Hesiod, Theogony 865. Homer Iliad Book 2.427, 9.469, 17.92-93, 23.33. Homer Odyssey Book 24.71-78. Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.39.
Forge/Smithy - Apollodorus 1.4.3. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 368. Apollodorus Note 3.13.3.b. Homer Iliad Book 15.309-310. Homer Iliad Book 18.370-376. Homer Iliad Book 18.470-469. Homer Iliad Book 21.343-358. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.88.3.
