Vulcan
deity figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the Vulcan at Athens
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
God of the forge, whose statue by Alcamenes at Athens gives him a limp, and whose name/form Cotta says varies by region.
For Vulcan is not, as you, Velleius, the same wherever you go — the same in Italy, the same in Africa, the same in Spain.
And indeed we praise the Vulcan at Athens which Alcamenes made, in which, as the god stands clothed, a slight, not unsightly limp appears:
for from childhood we have known Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Neptune, Vulcan, Apollo, and the rest of the gods by that face which painters and sculptors chose, and not only by face but by adornment, age, and dress.
Ad Nationes
God of the forge, said not yet to exist at the time of Saturn's castration of Heaven.
For Vulcan the artificer of iron was not yet.
De Corona
God credited with gifting Ariadne's wreath.
The same gives to Priapus too his fillets, and to Ariadne a wreath of gold and Indic gems, the gift of Vulcan and afterward of Bacchus, and later Callimachus brought in a star, a vine for Juno.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The smith-god (Hephaestus), popularly believed by locals to labor inside the volcanic island of Hiera.
Now the people in those parts think that in Hiera Vulcan works as a smith;