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Lemnos
The volcanic island where Hephaestus landed after being cast from Olympus, and where he established his forge.
About Lemnos
Where the smith fell
Homer says Zeus (or Hera) hurled Hephaestus from Olympus; he fell on Lemnos and the Sintians cared for him. The island's volcano and smith-cult (Hephaestia) make the landing local. The Argonautica adds Hypsipyle and the Lemnian women who had killed their men. Philoctetes is marooned here in tragedy. Lemnos is a workshop and a wound: fire, isolation, and a woman-ruled interlude the Argonauts sail into. The forge is inferred from the fall, not described as a tourist plant.
On the map
Lemnos among other places of the Greek Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Homer, Iliad 1
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