Lot Essay
Hephaestos, the son of Zeus and Hera, was born with a club foot and was summarily thrown off Mount Olympos by his mother. In revenge, Hephaestos made Hera a beautiful chair, and when his heartless mother sat upon it she became entrapped. When her son refused to come to free her, Dionysos succeeded in bringing Hephaestos back to Olympos by seducing him with wine, placing him on a mule and leading him home along with reveling satyrs.