INTROOOO

When we think of gods and goddesses in Greek Mythology, we think

these chiseled aesthetically pleasing figures, they always have this air of
beauty but when we think of the God Hephaestus, beauty is one of the last
things that comes to mind,
Birth of Hephaestus
Hephaestus is considered as the child of Zeus and Hera

In other versions of the story, Hera bore Hephaestus, ​who excelled all the sons
of Heaven in crafts,​ without union with Zeus.

HEPHAESTUS (Hêphaistos), the god of fire, was, according to the Homeric account,
the son of Zeus and Hera. Later traditions state that he had no father and that Hera
gave birth to him independent of Zeus, as she was jealous and angry and she even
quarreled at her mate---- Zeus for having given birth to Athena independent of her.

Further development of the later tradition is, that Hephaestus sprang from the thigh of
Hera, and, being for a long time kept in ignorance of his parentage, he at length had
recourse to a scheme, for the purpose to find it out. He constructed a chair, to which
those who sat upon it were fastened, and having thus entrapped Hera, he refused to
allow her to rise until she had told him who his parents were.

Fall from Heaven I

After bringing him to the world, ​Hera​ was so disgusted with ​Hephaestus​’ looks
and ashamed of his deformity that she was the one who threw him out.

Another reason why Hera is ashamed because Zeus has given birth to
bright-eyed Athena, ​ who is foremost among all the blessed gods while his son
Hephaistos whom she only bare was weakly among all the blessed gods, a shame and
a disgrace to Hera in heaven

In disgust, Hera threw Hephaestus to the ocean from Mt. Olympus to drown him
but luckily, Thetis and Eurynome rescued Hephaestus and sheltered him in a cave
under the Ocean for the following nine years.
 They took care of Hephaestus and eventually, Hephaestus learned making
jewelry with pearls and corals and as the time passed by, he worked many intricate
things; pins that bend back, curved clasps, cups, necklaces, working there in the hollow
of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos. No other among the gods or among mortal
men knew about Hephaestus except Eurynome and Thetis.

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According to some accounts, during this period, Hephaestus started making the
golden throne for her beloved mother.

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But the question is, gi unsa niya paghatag sa golden throne na dili siya
pagsuspetsahan?

Well, on to the next slide!

Return of Hephaistos
Charot lang, wala jud siya gisuspetsahan.

He was angry at his mother’s treatment and in revenge, he had made everyone golden
thrones for Zeus and the other gods, ​He made a golden throne as a gift for Hera,
without knowing, there were invisible fetter or chains that no one could see but the
creator of it.

As soon as she sat upon it, ​she was all tied up by the chains. H
​ ephaestus was
seeking revenge against Hera for abandoning him as a child. Hera
immediately felt guilty, began to cry, and begged her son for forgiveness.
The gods cannot release Hera bisag unsaon pag gamit sa mga powers nila
kay maayo lang jud si Hephaestus mo buhat, like siya jud ang pinaka maayo
when it comes to forging weapons or crafts. Since they can’t release Hera,
they tried convincing Hephaestus to release his mother but due to his anger
to his mother, he denied to the gods that he had a mother and left them and
went back to Lemnos.

So daghan kaayo’g versions how did he release Hera.

Zeus petitioned the gods to help free Hera from her predicament, offering the goddess
Aphrodite in marriage to whomsoever could bring Hephaistos to Olympos. Aphrodite
agreed to this arrangement in the belief that her beloved Ares, the god of war, would
succeed.

Ares attempted to storm the forge of Hephaistos, bearing arms, but was driven back by
the Divine Smith with a shower of flaming metal

Dionysos was the next to approach Hephaistos, but instead of force, he make
Hephaestus drunk and he suggested that Hephaistos might himself lay claim to
Aphrodite if he were to return voluntarily to Olympus and release Hera. The god was
pleased with the plan and ascended to Heaven with Dionysos, released his mother and
wed the reluctant Goddess of Love.

In other versions,​ Dionysus asked Hephaestus to have dinner with him and
discuss the situation. During dinner, Dionysus got his friend drunk and
convinced him to release his mother. But just before he was about to release
Hera, Zeus appeared and expressed his disappointment with his son.
Hephaestus took advantage of the situation, since his father didn’t know he
was going to release Hera anyway. He told his father that he would only
release the shackles if he was promised Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, as
his wife. The gods were appalled but Zeus felt he didn’t have a choice.
Hephaestus released Hera and then took his new bride. Another version is
that, Zeus agreed to have Aphrodite as a wife of Hephaestus t​o prevent a war
of the gods fighting for her hand.

Also, he rode a donkey to Mt. Olympus led by Dionysus.

Although Hephaestus afterwards remembered the cruelty of his mother, yet he was
always kind and obedient towards her.

Fall from Heaven II

Zeus threw Hephaestus from heaven after intervening, behalf of his
mother, in a dispute with his parents.
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Zeus threw Hephaistos from the sky for helping Hera when she was in chains. Zeus had hung her
from Olympos as punishment for setting a storm on Herakles as he was sailing back from his
conquest of Troy.
Hephaestus fell for one full day, and after the sunset he was found in Lemnos,
where he was taken care of by the Sintians, where he learned how to forge weapons
and all, but his leg was never good again.

Birth of Athena
Either Prometheus or Hephaestus struck the head of Zeus with an axe, Athena
sprang up, clad with a fully armoured eklabu.

In other versions, it opposed to the common story, that Hephaestus split the head of Zeus, and thus
assisted him in giving birth to Athena, for Hephaestus is there represented as older than Athena..

Creation of Pandora
Prometheus outwitted Zeus and stole the fire for the humankind. Zeus was
furious about it so he commanded Hephaestus to make a plaster earth with water and
to infuse it with a human voice and vigor, and make the face like the immortal
goddesses, the bewitching features of a young girl

[and other gods were instructed to bestow their gifts upon her.]

And all obeyed Lord Zeus, the son of Kronos. The renowned strong smith modeled her
figure of earth, in the likeness of a decorous young girl, as the son of Kronos had
wished . . . Athena gave it life, dresses her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil,
garlands and an ornate crown of silver and [Hermes] put a voice inside her, and gave
her the name of woman, Pandora, because all the gods who have their homes on
Olympos had given her each a gift

Chaining of Prometheus
Hephaestus is the one who bring Prometheus to Mount Kaukasus
commanded by Zeus and chained Prometheus by the chains made by
Hephaestus.
in other versions, it is said that the Eagle who was sent by Zeus to nibble
Prometheus’ liver was made by Hephaestus and Zeus, eventually, gave life
to the creation of Hephaestus, which was the eagle.

War of the Giants

After Zeus declares a war between the giants, he summoned all the
gods to combat them. ​Hephaestus with Dionysus ,the Satyrs and Sileni came and
surprised the giants when they entered the battlefield riding donkeys who were
screaming too loudly, so that the giants just turned their backs and left. Hephaestus
killed Mimas by throwing molten iron at him. After that, Helios took him on his chariot
so that the god might rest and Hephaestus paid him back by making magnificent
things in Aeetes’s palace, who was Helios’s son.

Flight from Typhoeus

When Zeus defeated Typhon, he ​piled the highest mountain, Aitna, on
Typhon and set Hephaistos on the peak as a guard. ​Hephaestus was put as
his guardian in Aitna, Cicely, where Zeus had put him. Thus, he made his laboratory
on Typhoon’s neck and there he worked with steel and fire.

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Having set up his anvils, he works his red hot blooms on Typhon's neck
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The Trojan War

I. HEPHAESTUS SOOTHES HERA IN HER ARGUMENT WITH ZEUS

A. Zeus and Hera argue about the god's secret counsel with the goddess Thetis, and in
his anger he threatens her with violence. Hephaestus
II. HEPHAESTUS RESCUES THE SON OF HIS TROJAN PRIEST

Dares is a trojan priest of hephaestus who had two sons, Phegeus and Idaios
who both are skilled in fighting. Phegeus was killed by Diomedes and Idaios,having the courage
to stand over his stricken brother, he still could not have escaped the black Ker or the Death
Spirit but Hephaestus caught him away and rescued him so that the old man may not be left
completely devastated.

III. HEPHAESTUS FORGES ARMOUR FOR ACHILLES

A. Thetis visited Hephaestus’ forge to ask or plead if he can make Achilles, his
short-lived son, ​a shield and a helmet and two beautiful greaves fitted with clasps for
the ankles and a corselet, which he had lost his shield, at the same time losing
Patroclus.
And so. he forged a shield that was huge and heavy, elaborating it about, and threw
around it a shining triple rim that glittered, and the shield strap was cast of silver. There were
five folds composing the shield itself, and upon it he elaborated many things in his skill and
craftsmanship . . . [an elaborate description of the scenes depicted on the shield follows.]
Then after he had wrought this shield, which was huge and heavy, he wrought for him a
corselet brighter than fire in its shining, and wrought him a helmet, massive and fitting close
to his temples, lovely and intricate work, and laid a gold top-ridge along it, and out of pliable
tin wrought him leg-armour.

IV. HEPHAESTUS BATTLES THE RIVER-GOD SCAMANDER

A. Hephaestus faced Scamander, after Scamander came close to killing Achilles.
Hephaestus lit a great fire and this fire caused the waters of Scamander to dry
up, forcing Scamander into a retreat
V. HEPHAESTUS FORGES ARMOUR FOR AENEAS UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN ITALY
 Eos had Hephaistos forge armour for her son Memnon before he entered the Trojan
War.

The Indian War of Dionysus

I. HEPHAESTUS RESCUES THE CABEIRI IN BATTLE

Cabeiri
Hephaistos' twin sons the Kabeiroi fought beside Dionysos' in his War against
the Indians. Twice during the battle, Hephaistos intervened to carry his sons to safety.

"Hephaistos took care of his sons the Kabeiroi [when the Indian river Hydaspes
tried to drown them and the rest of the army of Dionysos],
II. HEPHAESTUS BATTLES THE RIVER-GOD HYDASPES

HYDASPES​ A River-God of India (modern Pakistan & Indian Kashmir) who

opposed Dionysos in his war against the Indians.
In a battle of divine factions,, Hephaistos stands against the Indian River God Hydaspes
in the Indian Wars.
Hermes warns the River Hydaspes that Hephaistos (Hephaestus) stands against
him in the conflict between the gods :] ‘, beware of the fire of Hephaistos after the torch
of Bakkhos (Bacchus), or he may consume you with his firepronged thunderbolt.

LOVE
Aglaea
Aglaea​ was a name given to a number of different characters in Greek 
mythology. However, the most prominent was one of the ​Charites​, the Graces. She 
was the daughter of ​Zeus​ and either ​Eurynome​, an Oceanid, or Eunomia, goddess 
of good order. Along with her two sisters, ​Euphrosyne​ and ​Thalia​, they were known 
as the Three Graces. A​ glaea​ represented beauty, splendour and glory.  
 She was the second wife of ​Hephaestus​, after ​Aphrodite​, and had four 
daughters; Eucleia, Eupheme, Euthenia, and Philophrosyne.

Aphrodite
I. HEPHAESTUS WINS APHRODITE

II. APHRODITE AS WIFE OF HEPHAISTOS

Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty and pleasure, wished to please Hephaestus, but
Hephaestus, his passion was creating weapons that is why he doesn’t have time to his wife,
Aphrodte, and Aphrodite ignored by her husband, finds another man.

III. ARES & APHRODITE CAUGHT IN THE TRAP OF HEPHAISTOS

On this occasion he sings of the illicit love affair of A ​ res​ and ​Aphrodite 
but ​Helios (the sun-god) had seen them in their dalliance and hastened away to tell
Hephaistos; to him the news was bitter as gall, and he made his way towards his
smithy, brooding revenge. He laid the great anvil on its base and set himself to forge
chains that could not be broken or torn asunder, being fashioned to bind lovers fast.

He made the bronze chains or in other versions, a net, with all the indignation against
Ares. He went to the room where his bed lay and put the chains around the bed posts,
he hung the other to the roof beams, invisible to the blessed gods themselves. After
attaching it to the bed-post, he went away to Lemnos, but in other versions I’ve read, he
went out to invite the gods to watch the infidelity of Aphrodite with Ares eventhough he
is hesitant since he is a lame god and basin pagtawanan ra siya.

Once he had seen Hephaestus go, he approached their house and waited to Aphrodite.
Aphrodite, had just returned from the palace of Zeus and was about to sit down when
Ares entered their house, and invites Aphrodite to go to bed and take their delight
together since Hephaestus is no longer at the house.

So they went to the bed and lay there and god knows what they do, but the cunning
chains of Hephaistos enveloped them, and they could neither raise their limbs nor shift
them at all; so they saw the truth when there was no escaping.

Meanwhile, Hephaestus approached; he had turned back short of the land of Lemnos,
since watching Helios (the sun-god) had told him everything.
He neared his house and halted inside the porch; savage anger had hold of him, and he
roared out hideously, crying to all the gods. He made all the gods come to their house,
especially Zeus, making them look what had happened and there he wept, he was lame
that’s why she gave her love to Ares since he is handsome and all.

That chain that holds them will remain if Zeus won’t give back the gifts, he bestowed to
Zeus for his daughter.

beauty she has, but no sense of shame.’

Then the gods, Poseidon, Hermes and Apollo came in front of the house, laughing at
how Ares was defeated by a slow and crippled god, Hephaestus. The god Apollo even
sniggered at Hermes. “​“You’d swap places with Ares right now, wouldn’t you?” Apollo
said. “Too right I would! Even if there were three nets!” Replied the salivating Hermes.

Except for Poseidon, he didn’t laugh with them but instead, he was aroused after seeing
Aphrodite naked at the bed. Zeus ​was so disgusted by the whole affair that he would
have nothing to do with it. Poseidon, then, offered surety that Ares would pay the debt
and if he denies and escaped elsewhere then Poseidn would pay what Hephaestus
would ask for, thus, he released both Aphrodite and Ares. ​Ares went on his way to
Thrake, and Aphrodite to Paphos in Kypros to renew her virginity.

Aphrodite, grateful for Poseidon’s help in releasing her, bore him two sons. And grateful
for Hermes’ compliments, she bore him a son too.

. V. HEPHAISTOS DIVORCES APHRODITE

According to some myths Hephaestus divorce Aphrodite after catching her with
Ares but in other version, he decided not to divorce Aphrodite.

III. APHRODITE BARES CHILDREN TO HER PARAMOUR ARES

Harmonia was born of Aphrodite's adulterous affair with the god Ares.
This  daughter  later  became  the  wife  of  the legendary founder of the city of ​Thebes​, 
Cadmus​.  As  soon  as  ​Hephaestus  found  out  about  the  marriage,  he  went  to 
Harmonia  and  offered  her  the  necklace  as  a  gift.  He  had  previously  cursed  the 
necklace  to  bring  misfortune  to  anyone  who  wore  or  possessed  it;  at  the  same 
time,  though,  the  necklace  was able to bring eternal youth and beauty to its bearer. 
According  to  ​the  myths​,  the  necklace  was  made  of  gold  and  jewels,  and  had  the 
shape of two serpents forming a clasp with their open mouths. 
Harmonia  and  her  husband  were eventually turned into serpents, and the necklace 
was  inherited  by  their  daughter,  ​Semele​.  It  also brought her demise, as the day she 
wore  it,  she  was  visited  by  a  disguised  ​Hera  and  was  tricked  into  asking  her  lover, 
who  was  ​Zeus  in  disguise,  to  reveal  himself; ​Zeus was forced to comply causing her 
instant  death.  The  necklace  later  fell  into  the  hands  of  Queen  ​Jocasta​,  who 
remained  young  and  beautiful  thanks  to  it.  She  unknowingly  married  her  son 
Oedipus​,  and  when  the  truth  was  revealed,  she  killed  herself,  while  ​Oedipus  tore 
his  eyes  out.  ​Polynices  inherited  the  necklace  and  gifted  it  to  Eriphyle,  eventually 
leading  to  her  demise  as  well.  It  then  went  into  Arsinoe's  hands,  before  finally 
reaching  the  hands  of  Amphoterus  and  Acarnan.  They  both  decided  to  offer  the 
necklace  to  the  Temple  of  ​Athena  in  ​Delphi​,  in  order  to  stop  any  further 
misfortunes.  The  necklace  was  stolen,  however, by the tyrant Phayllus, who offered 
it  to  his  lover;  however,  her  son  fell  into  madness,  set  fire  to  the  house,  killing 
everyone in there. This is the last story linked to the N ​ ecklace of Harmonia​. 

Athena
According to the myth, The Trojan war started that period and 
Athena, the goddess of strategic war, decided to visit Hephaestus’ 
workshop in order with new armor and weapons. Hephaestus, ​deserted
by Aphrodite, let himself become aroused by Athena, and started chasing
her as she ran from him. When he caught up with her with much effort (for
he was lame), he tried to enter her, but she, being the model of virginal
self-control, would not let him; so as he ejaculated, his semen fell on her
leg. In revulsion Athene wiped it off with some wool, which she threw on the
ground. And as she was fleeing and the semen fell to the earth,
Erikhthonios came into being."
In anoother version, did you remember what I said earlier? That he took
advantage of the situation, na unsay makuha niya in exchange to release
Hera. Poseidon, who was hostile to Athena, urged Hephaistos to ask for
Athena in marriage. This was granted, but Athena, when he entered her
chamber, defended her virginity with arms. As they struggled, some of his
seed fell to earth, and from it a boy was born, the lower part of whose body
was snake-formed.
Athena​ decided to raise him secretly and hid him in a box. 

The  goddess  gave  the  box  to  the  daughters  of  King  ​Cecrops  of  ​Athens​,  and  told 
them  to  keep  the  box  shut.  However,  two  of  them,  ​Aglaurus  and  ​Herse​,  curious  to 
see  what  was  inside,  opened  it  and  saw  the  infant  ​Erichthonius  wrapped  around  a 
snake.  Driven  in  madness  due  to  the  sight,  the  two  sisters  along  with  the  third, 
Pandrosus​, fled and fell off the Acropolis to their deaths. 
 

[extra] When ​Erichthonius​ reached adulthood, he drove the usurper Amphictyon 

out of the throne, and became the new leader of ​Athens​. He was married to the 
naiad ​Praxithea​, with whom he had a son, Pandion the First. Throughout his reign, 
Erichthonius​ was protected by A ​ thena​, for whom he created the Panathenaic 
Festival. It was also believed that he invented the four - horse chariot, and after his 
death, ​Zeus​ was so impressed that he transformed him into a constellation, the 
Charioteer (Auriga). 

Persephone
Everyone, who lives in the Mt.Olympus, was bewitched by Persephone, they
were all rivals in love for the marriageable maid and they offered something to
Persephone.

Hermes . . . offered his rod as gift to adorn her chamber. Apollon produced his
melodious harp as a marriage-gift. Ares brought spear and cuirass for the wedding, and
shield as bride-gift. Lemnian Hephaestus held out a curious necklace of many colours,
new made and breathing still of the furnace, but all the suitors were turned away by her
mother Demeter"

(1) DIVINE LOVES (GODDESSES)

AGLAIA​ (Aglaea) The goddess of glory and one of the three Kharites. She married Hephaistos after
his divorce from Aphrodite and bore him several divine daughters: Eukleia, Eutheme, Euthenia, and
Philophrosyne.
APHRODITE​ The goddess of love and beauty was the first wife of Hephaistos. He divorced her
following an adulterous love-affair with his brother Ares, to whom she had borne several children.

ATHENA​ The goddess of war and wisdom fought off an attempted rape by the god Hephaistos,
shortly after his divorce from Aphrodite. She wiped his fluids form her leg and threw them upon the
earth (Gaia) which conceived and bore a son Erikhthonios. Athena felt a certain responsibility for this
child and raised it as her own in the temple of the Akropolis.

GAIA​ (Gaea) The goddess of the earth was accidentally impregnated by the seed of Hephaistos,
when Athena cast the god's semen upon the ground after his attempted rape.

PERSEPHONE​ The gods Hephaistos, Ares, Hermes, and Apollon all wooed Persephone before her
marriage to Hades. Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of
the gods.

(2) SEMI-DIVINE LOVES (NYMPHS)

AITNA (Aetna) The goddess-nymph of Mount Aitna (Etna) in Sicily (southern Italy) loved by the god
Hephaistos. She bore him a daughter Thaleia. [see ​Family​]

KABEIRO (Cabeiro) A sea-nymph of the island of Lemnos (Greek Aegean) loved by Hephaistos who
bore him several sons and daughters called the Kabeiroi and the Kabeirides nymphs. [see ​Family​]

(3) MORTAL LOVES (WOMEN)

ANTIKLEIA (Anticleia) A woman of Epidauros in Argolis (southern Greece) who bore Hephaistos a
son--the bandit Periphetes. [see ​Family​]

ATTHIS A princess of Attika (southern Greece) who, according to some, was loved by the god
Hephaistos and bore him a son Erikhthonios (however, according to most accounts, the child was a
son of Hephaistos and Gaia the Earth). [see ​Family​]

OKRESIA (Ocresia) A princess of Rome and Latium (central Italy) who bore Hephaistos (Volcanos)
a son Servius Tullius. [see ​Family​]

Favour
Orion
"[Oinopion king of Khios] blinded him [Orion, for raping his daughter] and tossed him out on
the beach. He made his way to the bronze workshop of Hephaistos [on the island of Lemnos] and
seized a boy [Kedalion], set him on his shoulder, and ordered him to guide him towards the east . . .
[where he was healed by Helios]. Immediately he started back to confront Oinopion. But Poseidon
had provided Oinopion with a house beneath the earth, built by Hephaistos."

Pelops
A Lydian prince and later king of Pisa in Elis (southern Greece), who after murdering Myrtilos
the son of Hermes, sought out Hephaistos on the banks of the river Okeanos to purify him of the
crime. In other versions, Hephaestus created an ivory shoulder to replace the missing part after
Pelops was eaten when he was served by gods.

Pelops​' father, T
​ antalus​, wanted to make an offering to the gods, and decided to kill his son; 
he cut P
​ elops​ into pieces, and served him as a stew to the gods. H
​ ades​, ​ate​ the left shoulder. 
Afterwards, P​ elops​ was reassembled by the gods and brought back to life, while H ​ ephaestus​, 
the blacksmith god, created an ivory shoulder to replace the missing part.

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extra :

Pelops  was  the  king  of  the  city  of  Pisa  in  Peloponnesus,  in  Greek  mythology.  His  father  was 
Tantalus​,  the  founder  of  the  dynasty  of  the  Atreides,  while  his  mother  may  have  been  ​Dione​, 
Euryanassa or Eurythemista. 
Pelops​'  father,  ​Tantalus​,  wanted  to  make  an  offering  to  the  gods,  and  decided  to  kill  his  son; 
he  cut  ​Pelops  into  pieces,  and  served  him  as  a  stew  to  the gods. Most gods realised that there 
was  something  wrong  and  did  not  eat,  but  ​Demeter​,  who  was  grieving  for  her  daughter 
Persephone​'s  abduction  by  the  god  of  the  Underworld,  ​Hades​,  ​ate  the  left  shoulder. 
Afterwards,  ​Pelops  was  reassembled  by  the  gods  and  brought  back  to  life,  while ​Hephaestus​, 
the  blacksmith  god,  created an ivory shoulder to replace the missing part. ​Poseidon then made 
Pelops​his apprentice in Olympus and taught him how to steer the divine chariot. 
He  left  his  homeland,  Phrygia  or  Lydia,  and  went  to  Greece,  where  he  participated  in  a chariot 
race  against  King  ​Oenomaus  of  Pisa.  ​Oenomaus  was  afraid  of  a  prophecy  that  he  would  be 
killed  by  his  son-in-law,  so  he  killed  all  potential  suitors  of  his daughter after defeating them in 
the  race.  However,  ​Pelops  asked  for  ​Poseidon​'s  help,  and  together  they  made  a  plan;  they 
convinced  ​Oenomaus​'  charioteer,  ​Myrtilus​, to replace the bolts of the chariot wheels with fake 
ones.  So,  during  the  race,  ​Oenomaus​'  chariot  was  destroyed  and  ​Oenomaus  was  dragged  to 
death  by  his  horses.  ​Pelops  was  declared  the  winner,  and  he  received the throne of the city as 
well as the king's daughter as a bride. Since then, ​Pelops organised annual games in memory of 
his  father-in-law  as  well  as  in  honour  of  the  gods;  these  were  the  beginnings  of  the  Olympic 
Games. 
Pelops  and  ​Hippodamia  had  sixteen  children,  including  ​Atreus​, ​Thyestes​, ​Pittheus​, ​Troezen​, 
Astydameia​,  ​Nicippe​,  ​Lysidice​,  and  ​Eurydice​.  ​Pelops  also  fathered Chrysippus, after courting 
the  nymph  Axioche.  ​Myrtilus  tried  to  rape  ​Hippodamia​,  and  ​Pelops  killed  him;  before  dying 
though,  ​Myrtilus​cursed  ​Pelops  and  his  descendants;  a  curse  that  was  the  doom  of  the  whole 
dynasty.  Because  of the curse, ​Atreus and ​Thyestes killed Chrysippus and were then banished; 
Hippodamia  hanged  herself;  ​Pelops​'  grandchildren  ​Agamemnon​,  ​Aegisthus​,  ​Menelaus​,  and 
his great-grandchild ​Orestes​were also plagued by this curse, which was referred to as the curse 
of the Atreides. 
 
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Possible eklabu: 
According  to  the  myth,  ​Tantalus  was  welcomed  in  the  table  of  the  deities  in  Olympus; 
however, he stole ​ambrosia and ​nectar​, thinking he could take it back to his people, in order to 
make  them  immortal  and  reveal  the  divine  secrets.  He  later  decided  to  sacrifice  his  son  to  his 
gods;  so,  he  cut  ​Pelops  in  pieces,  and  served  him  to  the  gods.  The  gods  realised  what 
happened  and  did  not  eat  at  all;  only  ​Demeter​, who was upset by her daughter's abduction by 
Hades​,  took  a  bite  of  ​Pelops​'  shoulder.  When  it  was  revealed  what  had  happened,  ​Zeus  told 
Clotho​, one of the three Fates, to bring the boy back to life, and the missing part of his shoulder 
was replaced by an ivory piece forged by H ​ ephaestus​. 
Tantalus  was  thrown  out  of  Olympus  and  after  he  died  he  was  punished  for  eternity;  he  was 
made  to  stand  in  a  pool  of  water,  right  under  the  branches  of  a  fruit  tree.  However,  when  he 
tried  to  reach  for  a  fruit, the branches would go higher and out of reach, while when he tried to 
drink a sip of water, the waters of the pool would recede. 
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Another possible eklabu 
 
In  Greek  mythology,  ​A​mbrosia  was  considered  the  food  or  drink  of  the  Olympian  gods,  and  it 
was  thought  to  bring  long  life  and  immortality  to  anyone  who  consumed  it.  It  was often linked 
to  ​nectar​,  the  other  element  that  the  gods  consumed;  usually,  it  was  thought  that  ​ambrosia 
was  the  food  and  ​nectar  was  the  drink  of  the  gods.  In  general,  ​ambrosia  was  only consumed 
by  deities;  when  ​Heracles  achieved  immortality,  ​Athena  offered  him  ​ambrosia​;  while  when 
Tantalus  tried  to  steal  some  to  give  to  other  ​mortals​, he was punished for committing hubris. 
Whoever  consumed  ​ambrosia  no  longer had blood in their veins, but another substance called 
ichor​. 
One  of  ​the  myths  about  ​Achilles​’  immortality  has  it  that  his  mother ​Thetis anointed him with 
ambrosia  when  he  was  born  and  then  passed  him  through  flames,  so  that  the  mortal 
elements  of  his body would be consumed. However, ​Peleus​, his father, found out and stopped 
her;  this  caused  ​Thetis​’  rage  and  left  without  managing  to  immortalise  ​Achilles​’  heel.  As  a 
result, that was the only vulnerable spot in his body. 
 
WORKS:  
His  works  are  ​The magical girdle of Aphrodite had the power to inspire the passion of desire. Hera,
in her role as the goddess of marriage, occassionally borrowed it from Aphrodite to reunite
quarrelling spouses in love and to inspire the bridal contests of suitors. 
 

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Notes:

I do not think Aphrodite was allowed to divorce her husband, Greece was a
patriarchy in Hellenic times, women were not allowed to divorce their husbands, and it
reflected in mythology.

The society portrayed in Homer’s epics is patriarchal, women are a property and
a marriage is literally the purchase of a woman: the groom brings gifts (​héedna)​ to his
bride’s father, and then brings the bride inside his house.
Aphrodite’s marriage with Hephæstus was not different. Hephæstus brought his
marriage gifts to Zeus, Aphrodite’s father

SLIDES
God of
Appearance

Roman Counterpart : Vulcan

Symbols: Hammer, Tongs, Anvils
Sacred Animals : Donkey and Crane- Associated with the god from his time dwelling on
the banks of the river Okeanos. Its long necked depicted as decorating the
donkey-saddle of the god.

Love
Children
Works:

(1) PALACES & FURNISHINGS

(2) TEMPLES & CULT STATUES

(3) AUTOMOTONES (LIVING STATUES)

(4) HUMANS

5) CHARIOTS & BOATS

6) JEWELLERY

(7) BOWLS, CUPS & JUGS

(8) CHAINS & BINDINGS

WEAPONS

ARMOUR

Chuchu
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