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The Iliad

Note 591 — BOOK THE EIGHTEENTH.

Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4

Footnote 591: (return) “Hephæstos is the son of Hêrê without a father, and stands to her in the same relation as Athênê to Zeus: her pride and want of sympathy are manifested by her casting him out at once, in consequence of his deformity.”—Grote, vol. i. p. 79.

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