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    versions, Hephaestus's consort is Aphrodite, who is unfaithful to Hephaestus with a number of gods and mortals, including Ares (see Hephaestus and Aphrodite...
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    The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion (also "Hephesteum" or "Hephaesteum"; Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστεῖον, Greek: Ναός Ηφαίστου, and formerly called in error...
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  • Hephaestus could be: Hephaestus, a Greek god Hephaestion, a Macedonian nobleman and general Hephaestus (album) Hephaestus (Marvel Comics) Hephaestus, a...
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    mild-mannered blacksmith god Hephaestus into chaining Prometheus to the rocky crag, despite Hephaestus' objections to this. Hephaestus laments over Prometheus'...
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    interference with the battle as she tells Hephaestus to prevent the river from harming Achilles. Hephaestus sets the battlefield ablaze, causing the river...
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    associated with both Hephaestus and Prometheus. Kerényi suggests that Hephaestus may in fact be the "successor" of Prometheus, despite Hephaestus being himself...
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    to the Bibliotheca, Athena visited the smith-god Hephaestus to request some weapons, but Hephaestus was so overcome by desire that he tried to seduce...
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  • Hephaestus makes many appearances in popular culture. Hephaestus appears in W H Auden's poem "The Shield of Achilles" Hephaestus participates in a story...
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    the hall of Hephaestus, her husband. Helios reported the incident to Hephaestus. Contriving to catch the illicit couple in the act, Hephaestus fashioned...
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    14°17′19″E / 36.017459°N 14.288641°E / 36.017459; 14.288641 MT or MV Hephaestus was a bunkering oil tanker which ran aground off Qawra, Malta on 10 February...
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    the Charites had a role as the wife of the smith god Hephaestus. Hesiod names the wife of Hephaestus as Aglaea. In the Iliad, she is called Charis, and...
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    Odyssey 8.312, Hephaestus was apparently the son of Hera and Zeus, see Gantz, p. 74. According to Hesiod, Theogony 927–929, Hephaestus was produced by...
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  • Hephæstus was a town in Roman Egypt, in the province of Augustamnica Prima, the eastern part of the Nile Delta. The name Hephæstus is known only from ecclesiastical...
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    only four columns, it is now the symbol of modern Agrigento. Temple of Hephaestus (Vulcan), also dating from the 5th century BC. It is thought to have been...
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    that Hera produces Hephaestus on her own after Athena is born from Zeus's head, other versions, including Homer, have Hephaestus as a child of Zeus and...
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    the genus: Hephaestus adamsoni (Trewavas, 1940) (Adamson's grunter) Hephaestus carbo (Ogilby & McCulloch, 1916) (Coal grunter) Hephaestus epirrhinos Vari...
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    surviving sources. In Homer's Iliad, Charis is the wife of Hephaestus. She lives with Hephaestus in a bronze-wrought home on Mount Olympus, into which she...
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    quite capable of unsettling the divine order. (Slatkin 1986:12) When Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus, whether cast out by Hera for his lameness or...
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  • Iceburn (redirect from Hephaestus (album))
    booster for Iceburn and Densely's music. Firon (1992), Victory Records Hephaestus (1993), Revelation Records Iceburn/Engine Kid split cd/12" (1994), Revelation...
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    poet Callimachus makes the Hesiodic Cyclopes the assistants of smith-god Hephaestus, as does Virgil in the Latin epic Aeneid, where he seems to equate the...
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    his own bow and arrows. Although Hephaestus is skeptical, Apollo suggests he check if he is missing anything. Hephaestus then discovers that his pincers...
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    allowing Athena to be born. Zeus agreed to this and Hephaestus and Athena were married, but, when Hephaestus was about to consummate the union, Athena vanished...
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    Pseudalsophis hephaestus, otherwise known as the Santiago racer, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. The snake is endemic to Santiago Island...
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    shores three times daily. Talos is usually said to have been made by Hephaestus at the request of Zeus, to protect Europa from people who would want to...
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    Jackson and the Olympians as Hephaestus, the Greek God of Forges and blacksmiths. Like Omundson, the character Hephaestus suffers from a disability and...
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  • the infant god Zeus. Guard Dogs of Hephaestus Temple, a pack of sacred dogs that guarded the temple of Hephaestus at Mount Etna. Laelaps, a female dog...
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  • adapted from the Greek god of the same name. Hephaestus first appeared in Wonder Woman #226. Hephaestus is the Olympian Gods' blacksmith whose history...
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    grunter (Hephaestus raymondi) of New Guinea. The colourful juveniles are found in the aquarium trade. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hephaestus carbo...
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    Odyssey 8.312, Hephaestus was apparently the son of Hera and Zeus, see Gantz, p. 74. According to Hesiod, Theogony 927–929, Hephaestus was produced by...
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  • Perseus, Andromeda and Agenor set out to find Hephaestus on a hidden island. Agenor explains that Hephaestus created three weapons which Zeus, Hades, and...
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