Herodotus' Histories

Hephaistos

Role: deity · First appears: Book 2 · §121–121

Life events

  • Rhampsinitos left a gateway and two statues as a memorial.(Book 2 · §121–121 · 📍 temple of Hephaistos)
    • With: Rhampsinitos
    • “Rhampsinitos received in succession the kingdom, who left as a memorial of himself that gateway to the temple of Hephaistos which is turned towards the West, and in front of the gateway he set up two statues”

Book 2 · §121–121

  • with Rhampsinitos (Rhampsinitos left a memorial gateway at Hephaistos’s temple.) “who left as a memorial of himself that gateway to the temple of Hephaistos which is turned towards the West”

Book 2 · §139–143

  • with Sethos (Sethos was Hephaistos's priest.) “After him there came to the throne the priest of Hephaistos, whose name was Sethos.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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