MythsUnderstood: Hephaestus. MythsUnderstood, #2

Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus seconds after he was born. He spent the next four thousand years building things. Weapons. Palaces. Automatons. A throne designed to trap the mother who discarded him. A net designed to expose the wife who betrayed him. Hephaestus has always been very good at making things work exactly as intended. The problem is that people aren't machines. From the bottom of the sea to the forges of Olympus, Hephaestus tells the story behind the stories: the women who raised him, the family who forgot him, the marriage nobody asked either of them to want, and the two perfect traps that gave him exactly what he built them to give him-and nothing he actually needed.
MYTHSUNDERSTOOD: HEPHAESTUS is a funny, intimate, and painfully human reimagining of Greek mythology: an autobiography from the god who can fix almost anything except the damage people do to one another.