Word: hephaestus
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...Aphrodite who led us on. For starters, according to one account, she was created from the genitals of the god Uranus, who had been hurled, dismembered, into the sea by his ill-tempered son Cronus. Her husband was Hephaestus, blacksmith to the gods and the ugliest fellow in the pantheon. This may explain why Aphrodite lost no time in fooling around with squads of other gods and not a few surprised mortals, among them an obscure shepherd or two. It is no wonder that Aphrodite should continue to be so seductive even to this day. Underachieving, oversexed...
...more precocious early Rubens than his enormous, little- known portrait of the Marchesa Caterina Grimaldi from Kingston Lacy, or such a drop-dead showpiece of neoclassical metalwork as John Flaxman's silver- gilt Shield of Achilles, based on Homer's description of the "wonderful shield" wrought by Hephaestus in the Iliad...