Definition of Hephaistos

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan.

Exact synonyms: Hephaestus
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Greek Deity

Definition of Hephaistos

1. Proper noun. (chiefly academic) (alternative spelling of Hephaestus) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hephaistos

Hensen's duct
Hensen's knot
Hensen's line
Hensen's node
Hensen's stripe
Hensing's ligament
Henson
Hepaticae
Hepaticopsida
Hepatocystis
Hepatozoon
Hepburn
Hepburnian
Hephaestos
Hephaestus
Hephaistos (current term)
Hephaistus
Hephestos
Hephestus
Hephthalite
Hephthalites
Hephzibah
Hephæstos
Hephæstus
Heptateuch
Hepworth
Her Honor
Her Maj
Her Majesty
Her Royal Highness

Literary usage of Hephaistos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Whatever may •*• have been the precise initial conception of Hephaistos, ... Hephaistos in Homer. — Homer knows Hephaistos only as the son of Zeus and Hera, ..."

2. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"Whatever may •*• have been the precise initial conception of Hephaistos, ... Hephaistos in Homer. — Homer knows Hephaistos only as the son of Zeus and Hera, ..."

3. An introduction to the science of comparative mythology and folklore by George William Cox (1881)
"The stratagem by which he discovered it reappears in the Norse story of the Master-smith who, like Hephaistos, possesses a chair, from which none who sit in ..."

4. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1887)
"In Hephaistos, the ever-young,1 we see an image of fire, not as CHAP. the ... The mystery of his birth perplexed Hephaistos : and the stratagem in which he ..."

5. Juventus mundi: the gods and men of the heroic age by William Ewart Gladstone (1869)
"Hephaistos. Hephaistos bears in Homer the double stamp of a Nature-Power, representing the element of fire, and of an anthropomorphic deity, who is the god ..."

6. Manual of Mythology, in Relation to Greek Art by Maxime Collignon (1890)
"But the representation of Hephaistos in art is not what might have been expected from ... In the Homeric story, Hephaistos falls into disgrace with Zeus. ..."

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