Aphrodite was his wife although she cheated on him with his brother ares, he then bound them to the bed to embarrass them
Athena, fully armed in battle armor given to her from her mother.
The Greeks believed that Hephaestus lived on Olympus with the other gods. He was, after all, one of the 12 Olympians. To the Greek colonists in Sicily and, later, to the Romans, he lived under the volcano, Mt. Aetna, at that point colluded with the Roman god, Vulcan.
The poor guy had no wife.
Pyrrha was the wife of Deucalion.
Hecuba was Priam's wife. He was also Hector's mother.
Aphrodite was his wife although she cheated on him with his brother ares, he then bound them to the bed to embarrass them
it was Hepaestus-
Fire, axe, pincers, and the hammer
Aphrodite was married to Hepaestus, but she had countless affairs.
The Roman equivalent of Hephaestus was Vulcan .
Hephaestus had a crippled leg and was ugly.
Athena, fully armed in battle armor given to her from her mother.
They weren't rivals but Hepaestus probably didn't like Aphrodite that much because he knew that she had cheated on him repeatedly.
The workshop of Hepaestus is in Etna (or Aetna as it is known as in greek mythology) a volcano in Italy. i suppose he would have lived there most of the time.
In a myth, Hephaestus's father and mother (Hera and Zeus) were having a fight. When Hepaestus backed up Hera, Zeus grew furious and threw him down Mount Olympus, crippling him in the fall.
The Greeks believed that Hephaestus lived on Olympus with the other gods. He was, after all, one of the 12 Olympians. To the Greek colonists in Sicily and, later, to the Romans, he lived under the volcano, Mt. Aetna, at that point colluded with the Roman god, Vulcan.
Ares is the God of warfare, war and bloodlust, when being God of war you have to have so many weapons like Ares. But yes Ares did prefer spear and shield as well. He prefer'd to use the hammer forged by hepaestus, who also forged the god weapons.