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Definition of Hephaistos
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the lame god of fire and metalworking in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vulcan.
Definition of Hephaistos
1. Proper noun. (chiefly academic) (alternative spelling of Hephaestus) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hephaistos
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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