Hephæstus

Hephaestus English Proper noun en Hephaestus. en 1865 w:Homer w:Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby w:Iliad 1 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EEYbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP14&dq=%22Heph%C3%A6stus%22&ei=PWSiSru7DYmGzATwjoCBCA#v=onepage&q=%22Heph%C3%A6stus%22&f=false viii I have adopted, not without hesitation, the Latin, rather than the Greek, nomenclature for the Heathen Deities. I have been induced to do so from the manifest incongruity of confounding the two; and from the fact that though English readers may be familiar with the names of Zeus, or Aphrodite, or even Poseidon, those of Hera, or Ares, or Hephæstus, or Leto, would hardly convey to them a definite signification. en 1921 Padraic Colum The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived before Achilles http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rog6AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Heph%C3%A6stus%22&dq=%22Heph%C3%A6stus%22&ei=PWSiSru7DYmGzATwjoCBCA 83 The Macmillan company Then Zeus called upon the artisan of the gods, lame Hephæstus, and he commanded him to make a being out of clay that would have the likeness of a lovely maiden. All strove to add a grace or a beauty to the work of Hephæstus. en 1930 B. Z. Goldberg The Sacred Fire: The Story of Sex in Religion http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7xvt0__A04MC&pg=PT51&dq=%22Heph%C3%A6stus%22&ei=PWSiSru7DYmGzATwjoCBCA#v=onepage&q=%22Heph%C3%A6stus%22&f=false 41 Forgotten Books 2008 160620047X 9781606200476 There was chaste Artemis, athletic goddess of the hunt; Hermes with his winged feet, fleet messenger of the gods; and the swart and limping Hephæstus, their mechanic, hammering out the heavy armors on his smoky forge. Derived terms en Hephæstian Hephæstic References “Hephæstus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)