Vulcan

Roman god of fire and the forge, son of Juno and husband of Venus, identified with the Greek Hephaestus; Virgil calls him "the Lord of Fire" and "the Lemnian god", Ovid also Mulciber. In the Aeneid he forges the arms and prophetic shield of Aeneas with the Cyclopes under Vulcania; in Ovid he nets Mars and Venus and builds the palace of the Sun. Livy records enemy spoils burnt as an offering to Vulcan.