Hephaestus
Family: gods · Role: god · First appears: Book I 2
Life events
- Hephaestus fashioned bronze bulls and an adamant plough for Aeetes, honoring Helios.(Book III 2 · 📍 Aeetes’ palace)
Book I 2
- child: Palaemonius “his birth was from Hephaestus”
Book III 2
- patron: Helios “Moreover he forged a plough of unbending adamant, all in one piece, in payment of thanks to Helios, who had taken the god up in his chariot when faint from the Phlegraean fight.”
- with Aeetes (Hephaestus crafted the bronze bulls for Aeetes.) “And he wrought for him bulls with feet of bronze, and their mouths were of bronze, and from them they breathed out a terrible flame of fire;”
- with Helios (Helios rescued or carried Hephaestus in his chariot.) “Moreover he forged a plough of unbending adamant, all in one piece, in payment of thanks to Helios, who had taken the god up in his chariot when faint from the Phlegraean fight.”
Book IV 7
- employer: Hera “at my behest I deem that Hephaestus will cease from kindling the fury of his flame”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.