Lemnos
placeLemnos was a volcanic island in the northern Aegean sacred to Hephaestus, where the god of the forge landed after Zeus hurled him from Olympus.
The Myth
When Hephaestus was cast from Olympus, he fell for an entire day and landed on Lemnos, where the Sintian people nursed him. He established his forge there. The island was also the site of the Lemnian women who murdered all their men after their husbands took Thracian concubines. When the Argonauts stopped there, they found an island of women ruled by Queen Hypsipyle. The wounded Philoctetes was later abandoned on Lemnos for ten years until the Greeks needed Heracles' bow to take Troy.
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Fun Fact
The phrase "Lemnian deeds" became a Greek idiom for atrocities — referring to the women who murdered their husbands.