Hephaestus
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Lemnos
- Greek
Smith of the gods, lame and thrown out of heaven, who makes everything the others rely on: armour, thrones, automata of gold that move on their own. The only Olympian who works.
Known for
- the god who labours
- golden automata
- thrown from heaven
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.