God of Fire: Greek Myths A New Retelling Steadman Helen
Thrown off Mount Olympus by his mother and raised beneath the sea, this is the epic story of Hephaestus, the disabled god of fire.In the palace of Zeus, a son is born to the greatest goddess, Hera.…
Specifikacia God of Fire: Greek Myths A New Retelling Steadman Helen
Thrown off Mount Olympus by his mother and raised beneath the sea, this is the epic story of Hephaestus, the disabled god of fire.In the palace of Zeus, a son is born to the greatest goddess, Hera. Withered and ugly, the newborn Hephaestus is hurled from the heavens by his repulsed mother. The unforgiving sea offers no soft landing, and the broken godlet sinks to the depths, where his little flame falters. But as darkness looms, he is saved by the sea witch, Thetis, who raises the outcast as her own.The only Olympian whose injuries never heal, the god of fire endures eternal pain from his wounded leg, making him perhaps the most human member of the pantheon. As if his physical pain were not enough, Zeus punishes Hephaestus further by sentencing him to life with Aphrodite. Unhappily married to the adulterous goddess of love, he is fated to repeat his
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