ABSTRACT
Daughter of Cycnus, king of Colonae, and sister of Tenes, who died defending her. See TENES.
(Latin: Vulcanus or Mulciber) Son of Hera, produced, according to Hesiod, without a mate. Other writers believed that Zeus was his father. He was the smith and metalfounder of the gods, and his worship was sometimes believed to have originated on the northern Aegean island of Lemnos, which contained a volcano on Mount Moschylus. He was also worshipped in Caria and Lycia in Asia Minor. His cult later spread to the volcanic regions of the west, Etna in Sicily, the Lipari Islands, and Campania in which Vesuvius is situated. He seems originally to have been a volcanic deity.
