Play with Fire, Get Burned (Hephaestus/Vulcan)

In light of the Vulcanalia/Volcanalia festival, which just passed on August 23rd, I wanted to take a closer look at the god Vulcan and his Greek counterpart Hephaestus. In the video, we get into what the essence of this god truly is and discuss some major themes in his worship and mythology. I hope you enjoy! Thanks for watching!

Here are some sources that I used for this video for anyone who wants to look further into Hephaestus/Vulcan's cult and mythology:

Primary Texts:
Homer, Odyssey 8.267ff: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...
Fagles also has a great translation of the Odyssey - that's my go-to English version!
Miscellaneous fragments from the textual tradition (Aphrodite's affair): https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Aphrod....
Homeric Hymn to Hephaestus: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library 1.5-6: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...
Pandora's tale in Hesiod, Works and Days 42-108: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...

Visual/Material Culture:
The Francois vase depicts, among other things, Hera trapped in the cursed chair and Dionysus (and Silenus) escorting Hephaestus back to Olympus. Many different sites have images of this vase. I used this one, which also tells a bit about the object itself: https://smarthistory.org/francois-vase/
Inscription from Domitian's time detailing his Vulcanal revitalization program: https://archive.org/details/inscripti... (p.249 #4914)
Warburg Institute curation of Vulcan images: https://iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.u...
More information about the Volcanal: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/...
On the 1508 printing of Pliny the Younger's letters: https://aldine.edwardworthlibrary.ie/...

Map of volcanic activity in the eastern Mediterranean: First evidence of a distal early Holocene ash layer in Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea sediments derived from the Anatolian volcanic province - Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/M...

My wedding pictures were done by the incomparable Kristin Griffin, who works out of New England: https://www.kristingriffinphotography...

All other images are from Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise specified in the video.
Stock video from Envato Elements.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:35 Fire
04:19 Worship of Vulcan
08:45 Vulcanalia Festival
13:28 Hephaestus as a Fire God
14:32 Volcanoes
15:39 Craftsmanship
20:41 Parents & Disability
25:15 Betrayal by Aphrodite & Revenge

Theme music: "Descent from the Olympos Pentatonic." (original)

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