He was brought back to Olympus by Dionysus and was one of the only gods to have returned after exile. His Roman counterpart was Vulcan.Īccording to myth, Hephaestus was born lame and was cast from heaven in disgust by his mother, Hera, and again by his father, Zeus, after a family quarrel. His cult reached Athens not later than about 600 bce (although it scarcely touched Greece proper) and arrived in Campania not long afterward. Originally a deity of Asia Minor and the adjoining islands (in particular Lemnos), Hephaestus had an important place of worship at the Lycian Olympus. Hephaestus, Greek Hephaistos, in Greek mythology, the god of fire. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Īthens: temple of Hephaestus © Michael Avory/.
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