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According to Hyginus, Zeus promised anything to Hephaestus in order to free Hera. Hephaestus asked for the hand of Athena in marriage (urged by Poseidon, who was hostile toward her), leading to his attempted rape of her. [27] In another version, he demanded to be married to Aphrodite in order to release Hera, and his mother fulfilled the ...
The Hesiodic Cyclopes: makers of Zeus' thunderbolts, the Homeric Cyclopes: brothers of Polyphemus, and the Cyclopean wall-builders, all figure in the plays of the fifth-century BC playwright Euripides. In his play Alcestis, where we are told that the Cyclopes who forged Zeus' thunderbolts, were killed by Apollo. The prologue of that play has ...
The thunderbolt pattern with an eagle on a coin from Olympia, Greece, 432-c.421 BC. Zeus' head and thunderbolt on a coin from Capua, Campania, 216-211 BC. Ptolemaic coin showing the Eagle of Zeus, holding a thunderbolt. A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap.
The daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Metis, she rose from her father's head fully grown and in full battle armor. Her symbols include the owl and the olive tree. Hephaestus: Vulcan: Master blacksmith and craftsman of the gods; god of the forge, craftsmanship, invention, fire and volcanoes. The son of Hera, either by Zeus or through ...
Striding forth from Olympus, Zeus unleashed the full fury of his thunderbolt, stunning and blinding the Titans, [85] while the Hundred-handers pelted them with enormous boulders: ... among the foremost Cottus and Briareus and Gyges, insatiable of war, roused up bitter battle; and they hurled three hundred boulders from their massive hands one ...
The winged horse Pegasus carried the thunderbolts of Zeus. [269] Zeus took pity on Ixion, a man who was guilty of murdering his father-in-law, by purifying him and bringing him to Olympus. However, Ixion started to lust after Hera. Hera complained about this to her husband, and Zeus decided to test Ixion.
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Such virtues include the piety represented by the Cyclops during the forging of Zeus' thunderbolts. [18] This is also reminiscent of the scene in the Iliad when Thetis goes to see Hephaestus, and requisitions him to create a new set of armor for her son Achilles. Before he began creating the shield and armor, Hephaestus was forging 20 golden ...