- Vulcan – Mythopedia
Vulcan married Venus, the goddess of sex, lust, and love, who provided a beautiful contrast to Vulcan’s notorious unattractiveness Theirs was a loveless and sexless marriage that produced no children Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed (c 1550) Italian engraving Los Angeles County Museum of Art Public Domain
- Iliad: Book 18 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Next this, the eye the art of Vulcan leads Deep through fair forests, and a length of meads, And stalls, and folds, and scatter’d cots between; And fleecy flocks, that whiten all the scene A figured dance succeeds; such once was seen In lofty Gnossus for the Cretan queen, Form’d by Daedalean art; a comely band Of youths and maidens
- Hephaestus - Mythopedia
Virgil: Vulcan (the Roman equivalent of Hephaestus) appears in his typical epic role in Book 8 of the Aeneid (19 BCE), making a suit of armor for the protagonist Aeneas Ovid: The myths of Vulcan Hephaestus feature in some of Ovid’s poetry, such as the Metamorphoses (ca 8 CE)
- Venus – Mythopedia
On Aeneas’ shield, Vulcan depicted the future triumphs of the Romans, such as Augustus’ victory over his foes at the battle of Actium in 31 BCE (as a contemporary and survivor of the bloody civil war that ended at Actium, Virgil had every reason to appease Augustus and present his triumph as a seminal moment in Roman history)
- Mercury – Mythopedia
Though Mercury was the only child of that union, he had many half-siblings by way of Jupiter Among them were Vulcan, the god of forge and fire, Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and forethought, and Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres who was abducted by Pluto and taken to the underworld Proserpina would later be recovered, thanks in part to
- Iliad: Book 20 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
On marble thrones, with lucid columns crown’d, (The work of Vulcan,) sat the powers around Even he whose trident sways the watery reign Heard the loud summons, and forsook the main, Assumed his throne amid the bright abodes, And question’d thus the sire of men and gods:
- Kagutsuchi – Mythopedia
Kagutsuchi’s relationship to blacksmiths, fire, and volcanoes is very similar to that of the Greek god Hephaestus and the Roman god Vulcan Popular Culture Kagutsuchi is a popular deity in media, including: In the manga series Noragami, Kagutsuchi appears as a fire-breathing deity
- Jupiter – Mythopedia
Jupiter was the supreme god of the Roman pantheon, a god of the sky and weather and the champion of Rome and its empire His Greek counterpart was Zeus
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