object

Forge

Objects

A named smithing hearth for heating metal. Not a kiln, not an anvil, and not the published Work-adjacent hearth alone.

Also known as Smith’s forge · Forge hearth

Hellenic religion

  • Forge appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad’s Hephaestus scene names the forge, the smithing hearth where the god works metal. A named Hellenic forge in that epic, not a kiln, not an anvil alone, and not the Work hearth.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.