Hephaestus2.0010_OConnor

Hephaestus2.0010_OConnor

OGCMA s.v. "Hephaestus"
Classical Sources:
Homer, Il. 1.571-608, 14.338, 18.368-617, 21.328-82
Homer, Od. 8.266-366
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1-81, 365-69
Orphic Hymns, 66 "To Hephaestus"
Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. 1.202-205, 1.850-60
Vergil Aeneid 8.416-54
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.5-6, 1.4.3-4, 1.6.2, 3.14.6, 3.16.1

George O’Connor, Hephaistos: god of fire, graphic novel, 2019, number 11 in the Olympians series.

The comic narrates several myths of Hephaestus, with much of the narrative embedded in flashback-explanations to Prometheus, whom at the opening Hephaestus himself is grimly fixing to a mountainside “somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains”. Included are also the myths of Hephaestus’ ejection from Olympus, his catching Aphrodite and Ares in flagrante delictu, Pandora and her box, Dionysus’ escorting Hephaestus in his Return to Olympus.

Comic book cover of Olympians Hephaistos: God of Fire, featuring Hephaistos hammering a sword in a forge

O’Connor’s blurb — “Thrown from Mount Olympus as a newborn and caught by Thetis ane Eurynome, who raised him on the island of Lemnos, Hephaistos had an aptitude for creating beautiful objects from a very young age. Despite his rejection from Olympus, he swallowed his anger and spent his days perfecting his craft. His exquisitely forged gifts and weapons earned him back his seat in the heaves, but he was not treated as an equal. His brothers and sisters looked down on him for his lame leg, and even his own wife, Aphrodite, was disloyal. Witness Hephaistos’ wrath as he creates a plan that’ll win him the respect he deserves.”

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.