Walter Burkert examined parallels between the myths of this location and a ritual in which its daily life paused for nine days until new fire arrived from Delos; Burkert compared the ritual return of fire to its craftsmen with the mythical return of its craftsmen gods, the Cabiroi.
Walter Burkert examined parallels between the myths of this location and a ritual in which its daily life paused for nine days until new fire arrived from Delos; Burkert compared the ritual return of fire to its craftsmen with the mythical return of its craftsmen gods, the Cabiroi. Homer writes that the Minyan allies of Greece, ruled by Euneus, came from this island. An earlier king of this island stowed away in a box and became a priest of Artemis among the Taurians. That king, Thoas, was deposed due to the wrath of Aphrodite, who punished this island for not worshiping her by giving its (*) women a repellent stench. During the Trojan War, Odysseus and Neoptolemus voyaged to this island to recover Heracles' arrows from the wounded Philoctetes. Hypsipyle was the queen of this island when the Argonauts visited, finding that its women had killed all their husbands. For 10 points, name this Aegean island sacred to Hephaestus, who landed here after his fall from Mount Olympus.
Walter Burkert examined parallels between the myths of this location and a ritual in which its daily life paused for nine days until new fire arrived from Delos; Burkert compared the ritual return of fire to its craftsmen with the mythical return of its craftsmen gods, the Cabiroi.
Lemnos