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Wrath of the Titans is a 2012 action fantasy film and a sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans.The film stars Sam Worthington, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nighy, Édgar Ramírez, Toby Kebbell, Danny Huston, Ralph Fiennes, and Liam Neeson, with Jonathan Liebesman directing a screenplay by Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson from a story by them and Greg Berlanti.
In the 2012 film Wrath of the Titans, Hephaestus is played by Bill Nighy. He is, in the film, credited with the creation of Tartarus and the forging of the weapons of the gods. In Homestuck Hephaestus is the denizen, a sort of final boss, in Land of Heat and Clockwork.
Hephaestus acts as a major ally of Percy in The Battle of the Labyrinth. In The Lost Hero, he defies Zeus by speaking to Leo through his dreams and delivers the head of the mechanical dragon Festus for use as the figurehead for the Argo II. In the film adaptation of The Lightning Thief, Hephaestus is portrayed by Conrad Coates.
Hephaestus (UK: / h ɪ ˈ f iː s t ə s / hif-EE-stəs, US: / h ɪ ˈ f ɛ s t ə s / hif-EST-əs; eight spellings; Ancient Greek: Ἥφαιστος, romanized: Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes. [1] Hephaestus's Roman counterpart is Vulcan.
The Hephaesteia (Ancient Greek: Ηφαίστεια), or Hephaestia, was an ancient Greek festival primarily celebrated in Athens and Lemnos in honor of the god Hephaestus. Initially, the Hephaesteia was an annual festival, but according to Aristotle, by the time of the archonship of Ktesiphon (329 BC - 328 BC), it was held every five years. [1] [2]
By Zeus or Hephaestus she became the mother of the Palici. [5] Mount Etna in Sicily was believed to have derived its name from her and under it Zeus buried Typhon, Enceladus, or Briareus. The mountain itself was believed to be the place in which Hephaestus and the Cyclopes made the thunderbolts for Zeus. [6]
By the Classical period, the races were run by ephebes also in honour of Hephaestus and Athena. [51] Prometheus' association with fire is the key to his religious significance [45] and to the alignment with Athena and Hephaestus that was specific to Athens and its "unique degree of cultic emphasis" on honouring technology. [52]
Aphrodite cheated on her husband Hephaestus with Ares, the god of war, and Ares had a youth, Alectryon, to keep guard. But Alectryon fell asleep, allowing Helios to see them and inform Hephaestus. Ares turned Alectryon into a rooster, which then became Helios' sacred bird, always crowing when he is about to rise during the early hours of the ...