Editing Hephaestus (section)

== Worship ==
[[Gaius Julius Solinus|Solinus]] wrote that the [[Lycians]] dedicated a city to Hephaestus and called it Hephaestia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://topostext.org/work/747#39.1|title=ToposText|website=topostext.org}}</ref>

The [[Hephaestia]] in [[Lemnos]] was named after the god. In addition, the whole island of Lemnos was sacred to Hephaestus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://topostext.org/work/201#520|title=ToposText|website=topostext.org}}</ref>

[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] wrote that the Lycians in [[Patara (Lycia)|Patara]] had a bronze bowl in their temple of [[Apollo]], saying that [[Telephus]] dedicated it and Hephaestus made it.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://topostext.org/work/213#9.41.1| title = Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.41.1}}</ref>

Pausanias also wrote that the village of Olympia in Elis contained an altar to the river [[Alfeios|Alpheios]], next to which was an altar to Hephaestus sometimes referred to as the altar of "Warlike Zeus."<ref>{{Cite web|title=ToposText|url=https://topostext.org/work/213#5.14.6|access-date=2021-10-27|website=topostext.org}}</ref>

The island [[Vulcano|Thermessa]], between [[Lipari]] and [[Sicily]], was also called Hiera of Hephaestus (ἱερὰ Ἡφαίστου), meaning "sacred place of Hephaestus" in Greek.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:6.2.10|title=Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2, section 10|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>