Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Hephaestus Born of Hera Alone (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation · Hesiodic — Hera’s parthenogenic birth of Hephaestus in anger at Zeus
• Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Hera
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Hera casts the lame child (Iliad 18)
• Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
• Hephaestus and Charis (Iliad Marriage)
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Charites · Homeric (*Iliad*) / Hesiodic (Aglaia)
• Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus

Places appearing with them

• Cyprus
• Hephaestus’s bronze house
• Hephaestus’s bronze house on Olympus
• Hephaestus’s house on Olympus
• Hollow cave by Ocean
• Lycia
• Mount Helicon
• Oceanus’s stream
• Olympus
• Thetis’s path from the sea to Olympus
• Thrace

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• War