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Hephaestia and
Hephaistia (Ancient Gr****: Ἡφαιστία), or
Hephaestias or
Hephaistias (Ἡφαιστίας), was a town of
Ancient Greece, now an
archeological site...
- for Hephaestus”,
underscoring Hephaestus’s
importance in the event.
Hephaisteia (Ἡφαίστεια) – The
primary festival of
Hephaestus in
Athens – was a state-sanctioned...
- was
doubted in this
instance by
Harmon (1912). See Dict of Ant. s. v.
Hêphaisteia, Chalkeia.
Walter Burkert, Gr****
Religion 1985: III.2.ii; see coverage...
- to date back to the 5th century, and
recent excavations at the site
Hephaisteia suggest that the
theater dated to the late 6th to
early 5th century....
- civilization. The
excavations were
conducted on the site of the city of
Hephaisteia (i.e., Palaiopolis)
where the Pelasgians,
according to Herodotus, surrendered...
- mid-1990s,
danakes have
tended to be
found in cemeteries. At a
necropolis at
Hephaisteia on Lemnos,
exploration of
which began in 1995, the many
finds in unlooted...
