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Meanings of Hephaistos in English
(Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan.
Usage of Hephaistos in English
1
Then Hephaistos threw into the fires bronze and tin and silver and gold.
2
Along with Hephaistos we built great walls and the homes of the gods themselves.'
3
Vulcan (Hephaistos), the celestial artist, was the son of Jupiter and Juno.
4
Starcad's loathing for a smith recalls the mockery with which the Homeric gods treat Hephaistos.
5
And Thetis besought Hephaistos to make new armour for her son that he might go into the battle.'
6
O land of Lemnos and the all-powerful fire, created by Hephaistos in the great volcano, must I submit to this?
7
Hephaistos might have carved to cut the brine
8
'My name is Periphetes, the son of Hephaistos and Anticleia the mountain nymph.
9
'Hephaistos was lame and crooked of foot and went limping.
10
Hephaistos, the god of fire, is figured with a hammer and in the form of a lame and ugly blacksmith.
11
'She no sooner finished speaking than Hephaistos went to his work-bench and set his bellows-twentywere there-working
12
'Hephaistos was ugly, too.
13
'Then all around the rim of the shield Hephaistos, the lame god, set an image of Ocean, whose stream goes round the world.