Vulcan

Family: deities · Role: god · First appears: Fable 39

Life events

• Vulcan traps Mars and Venus together in invisible chains and exposes them to the gods.(Fable39)
  • With: Mars Venus
  • “When the wife and the gallant come into the same bed, being both caught through the artifice of the husband, and chains prepared by this new contrivance, they are held fast in the very midst of their embraces.”

Fable 39

• parent: Jupiter (Alternative genealogy given in the footnote) “Other writers, however, say that he was the only son of Jupiter and Juno.”
• married with Venus “This God is supposed to have been the first to see the adultery of Venus with Mars; this God is the first to see everything. He was grieved at what was done, and showed to the husband, the son of Juno,[28] the wrong done to his bed, and the place of the intrigue.”

Fable 65

• child: Periphetes “By Antilia, Vulcan was the father of Periphetes, a robber who infested Epidaurus, in the Peloponnesus.”

Fable 71

• with Ariadne (One account says Vulcan made Ariadne's crown.) “Some writers say that the crown was given by Bacchus to Ariadne as a marriage present; while others state that it was made by Vulcan of gold and Indian jewels”

Fable 83

• child: Olenus “Olenus, who was supposed to be the son of Vulcan, had a beautiful wife, whose name was Lethæa.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.