“Hephaistos bears in Homer the double stamp of a Nature-Power, representing the element of fire, and of an anthropomorphic deity who is the god of art at a period when the only fine art known was in works of metal produced by the aid of fire.”

—  William Ewart Gladstone

Jeventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age (1870) p. 289. https://archive.org/stream/juventusmundigod00glad_1#page/288/mode/2up <br class="br">1870s

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