... supreme power and influence of their time. Each god is portrayed as beautiful with bodies sculpted to perfection, with one exception: Hephaistos, the god of fire and craft. He is the smith and armorer of the gods and the only supreme Olympian god who is lame. He is portrayed as ugly ... for the great Greek warrior and mortal, Achilles, during the heat of the Trojan War. The request comes from Thetis, the mother of Achilles, and by one account, the one that cared for Hephaistos after he was tossed off Mt. Olympus and crippled. Feeling a special bond to Thetis, he conceded even ... . Fina...

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