Hephaestus

Also known as: Heph. / Hephæstos / Vulcan · Family: Gods · Role: god of fire and smithcraft · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

Life events

• Zeus ordered Hephaestus, Strength, and Force to bind Prometheus to a rock.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1 · 📍 Caucasos)
  • With: Zeus Prometheus Strength Force
  • “But Zeus being wroth with Prometheus for this deed, sent Hephæstos, with his two helpers, Strength and Force, to fetter him to a rock on Caucasos.”
• Hephaestus, Strength, and Force fastened Prometheus in adamantine chains.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1 · 📍 Skythia)
  • With: Strength Force Prometheus
  • “Lo! to a plain, earth's boundary remote, We now are come,—the tract as Skythian known, A desert inaccessible: and now, Hephæstos, it is thine to do the hests The Father gave thee, to these lofty crags To bind this crafty trickster fast in chains Of adamantine bonds that none can break;”
• The judges award Achilles' Hephaestus-made armour to Odysseus instead of the more valiant Aias.(Sophocles, Aias — Scene 1)
  • With: Achilles Aias Odysseus
  • “After the death of Achilles, the armour made for him by Hephaestus was to be given to the worthiest of the surviving Greeks. Although Aias was the most valiant, the judges made the award to Odysseus, because he was the wisest.”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

• with Zeus (Zeus sends Hephaestus as an agent to punish Prometheus.) “Zeus being wroth with Prometheus for this deed, sent Hephæstos, with his two helpers, Strength and Force, to fetter him to a rock on Caucasos.”
• with Prometheus (Hephaestus identifies Prometheus as a god of his own kin.) “Yet my courage fails To bind a God of mine own kin by force”

Sophocles, Aias — Scene 1

• with Achilles (Hephaestus made armour for Achilles.) “After the death of Achilles, the armour made for him by Hephaestus was to be given to the worthiest of the surviving Greeks.”

Euripides, The Cyclops — Scene 4

• enemies with Polypheme (Ulysses calls on Vulcan to attack the Cyclops and burn out his eye.) “Vulcan, king Of Ætna, from this impious pest, who haunts Thy sacred mountain, free thyself at once, By burning out his glaring eye”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.