"At the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the gods gathered together on Pelion to feast and brought Peleus gifts. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or 6th B.C.) : Stasinus of Cyprus or Hegesias of Aegina, Cypria Fragment 5 (from Scholiast on Homer's Iliad 17. "He is said to have received from Volcanus a knife made out of adamant, with which he killed Medusa the Gorgon." II. "Nor greater noise from the Lemnian caves when Mulciber amid his flames forges the aegis and makes chaste gifts for Pallas." "Some busily burnished the aegis Athene wears in her angry moods-a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess' breast-a severed head rolling its eyes." "In front of him went Phoibos Apollon wearing a mist about his shoulders, and held the tempestuous terrible aegis, shaggy, conspicuous, that the bronze-smith ( khalkeus) Hephaistos had given Zeus to wear to the terror of mortals." Alkon grasped a fiery bolt in one hand."ĪRMOUR OF THE GODS I. "In his right hand he held a Lemnian spear made on his father's anvil, and by his wellmade thigh hung a flashing sword-if a man picked up a small stone in his fingertips and struck it against the fire-grained surface of the sharp blade, sparks flashed of themselves from the steel. But he, deserted by Aphrodite, let himself become aroused by Athene, and started chasing her as she ran from him." IV. "Athene went to Hephaistos because she wanted to make some weapons. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : who fashions the three-forked thunderbolts, yea, he who tends the hot furnaces ever raging 'neath Aetna's peaks." III. For he went to Parnassus and slew Python with his arrows." II. Four days after they were born, Apollo exacted vengeance for his mother. "Latona, clinging to an olive tree, bore Apollo and Diana, to whom Vulcanus gave arrows as gifts. Philoktetes possessed it and the hero's bow at the time of the Trojan War.ĪRMOUR & SHIELD OF AKHILLEUS (Achilles) Thetis petitioned Hephaistos to forge a new set of armour for her son Akhilleus, after his father's set was captured by Hektor during the Trojan War.ĬORSELET OF DIOMEDES Diomedes a hero of the Trojan War was described as possessing a corselet crafted by Hephaistos.ĪRMOUR OF MEMNON Eos had Hephaistos forge armour for her son Memnon before he entered the Trojan War.ĪRMOUR OF AENEAS Aphrodite persuaded her husband Hephaistos to forge a set of armour for her son Aeneas after his arrival in Latium and preparation for war.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES WEAPONS OF GODS I. QUIVER OF HERAKLES The richly decorated quiver of Herakles was crafted by Hephaistos. The same spear was employed by his son Akhilleus in the Trojan War.ĪIGIS OF ZEUS The shaggy goat-skin Aigis breastplate was said to have been created for Zeus or Athena by Hephaistos.ĪRMOUR & SHIELD OF HERAKLES Herakles received a golden breastplate and fabulous shield from the god Hephaistos. SPEAR & KNIFE OF PELEUS Hephaistos and Athena presented the Phthian hero Peleus with the gift of a spear at his marriage to Thetis. KNIFE OF PERSEUS The adamantine blade with which Perseus beheaded the Gorgon Medousa was said to have been crafted by Hephaistos. SPEARS & SWORDS OF THE KABEIROI (Cabeiri) Hephaistos crafted weapons for his sons the Kabeiroi gods of Lemnos. THUNDERBOLTS OF ZEUS The thunderbolts of Zeus were usually said to be forged by the three Kyklopes, only rarely was Hephaistos named as their artificer. The first "Works" page describes other creations of the god including palaces, animated statues, chariots, jewellery, cups and bowls.ĪRROWS OF APOLLON & ARTEMIS The twin archer-gods had their arrows forged by Hephaistos. The most famous of these artifacts were the armours of Herakles and Akhilleus (Achilles). This page describes the arms and armour crafted by Hephaistos for the kings and heroes of myth. HEPHAISTOS was the Olympian god of fire, smiths, craftsmen, metalworking and stonemasonry. Vulcan Hephaestus, Thetis and the armour of Achilles, Athenian red-figure nolan amphora C5th B.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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