A hand-book of mythology : the myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome (1884)
Berens, E. M · New York : Clark & Maynard · leaf 109
fire, and unrivalled master of the art of working in metals, and was ranked among the twelve great gods of Olympus, whose gilded statues were arranged consecutively along the Forum. His Roman name, Vulcan, would seem to indicate a connec¬ tion with the first great metal-working artificer of… … disputable dominion over the sea, and over all sea- divinities, who acknowledged him as their sovereign ruler. He possessed the power of causing at will, mighty and destructive tempests, in which the billows rise moun¬ tains high, the wind becomes a hurricane, land and sea being enveloped in thick…
Mythology, Classical
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