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Hephaestus

deity sky Greek corroborated · 30

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #406 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 30 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Archaic Greece through Roman period.

Relationships

co occurs with
Axiocersus, Cadmilus, Axierus, Axiocersa, Kabeiro, Concordia, Cupid, Janus, Hercules, Api, Tabiti, Papaios, Argimpasa, Terminus, Her[e]cle, Aphrodite Urania, Eos, Horae, Teliavelis, Dazhbog, Clymene, Sirius, Selene, *Dyēus, Hestia, Demeter, Rhea, Thetis, Hebe, Leto, Eunomia, Dike, Euphrosyne, Thalia, Ganymede, Electra, Europa, Aphrodite Pandemos, Tammuz, Ariadne, Dione, Ilat, Harmonia, Cadmus, Adonis, Eros, Dioscuri, Phobos, Deimos, Anteros, Theritas, Lapithae, Halirrhothius, Alcippe, Agraulos, Ptah, Apis, Artemis Enodia, Themis, Éris, Calchas, Oenopion, Merope, Orion, Poseidon, Persephone, Aglaia, Achilles, Paris, Hector, Patroclus, Priam, Iphigeneia, Polyxena, Gorgons, Athene, Castor, Pollux, Asclepius, Atlas, Aphrodite “of the Gardens”, Hermes “Propylaeus”, Talos, Amalthea, Mars, Minerva, Gaia, Amon, Jupiter, Helios, Hades, Typhon, Ishtar, Heracles, centaur, Osiris, Cronus, Prometheus, Medusa, Cerberus, Amphitrite, chimaera, Hecate, harpies, Triton
parent of
Cabeiri, Olenus, Erichthonius, Euthenia, Eupheme, Philophrosyne, Eucleia
syncretized with
Vulcan, Ptah, Svarog, Khnum, Mihr
sibling of
Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hermes, Ares, Artemis (Diana)
consort of
Charis, Aglaia, Aphrodite, Cabeiro, Venus, Aglaea, Kale
allied with
Zeus, Cedalion, Kratos
teacher of
Cedalion
served by
Donkey of Hephaestus, Guard Dogs of Hephaestus Temple, Cedalion
creator of
Pandora
child of
Zeus, Hera

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Mentioned by

and 17 more

Sources

wikipedia (24)
  1. List of Greek mythological creatures
  2. Cabeiri
  3. Amalthea (mythology)
  4. Mars (mythology)
  5. Athena
  6. Ajax the Great
  7. Helios
  8. Svarog
  9. Phaethon
  10. Athena Parthenos
  11. Interpretatio graeca
  12. List of Greek deities
  13. Charis (mythology)
  14. Eucleia, Euthenia, Eupheme, and Philophrosyne
  15. Harmonia
  16. Hebe (mythology)
  17. Athletics in epic poetry
  18. Serapeum of Saqqara
  19. Iphigenia
  20. Trojan War
  21. The Goddess Girls
  22. Oenopion
  23. Kratos (mythology)
  24. Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)
encyclopedia (6)
  1. Achilles (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Aegis (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  3. Agrigentum (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  4. Alcamenes (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  5. Aphrodite (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  6. Ares (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

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

#7745 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“the goat's father is Olenus (the son of Hephaestus), an interpretation given by a scholium on the passage”

#8967 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In Greek myth, the adultery of Ares and Aphrodite had been exposed to ridicule when her husband Hephaestus (whose Roman equivalent was Vulcan) caught them in the act by means of a magical snare.”

#10145 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In one archaic Attic myth, Hephaestus tried and failed to rape her, resulting in Gaia giving birth to Erichthonius, an important Athenian founding hero whom Athena raised.”

#10831 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Achilles' magical armor, which had been forged on Mount Olympus by the smith-god Hephaestus”

#11591 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5