The one with his face missing is a cyclops, and helper in Hephaestus's workshop (the god had a habit of employing cyclopses and dwarfs, and other peoples who were marginalized by the Olympian gods -- solidarity, and all that, also: if you can't do it all yourself, hiring personal/professional assistants is perfectly okay).
Hephaestus is the one who's sitting down behind the shield ('cause he can't stand up very well -- and I notice that the fresco painter probably couldn't decide what his deformed feet actually looked like, so painted in a conveniently placed marble plinth instead. /artist work-arounds).
Here's another picture of Hephaestus that's one of my favorites (with normal looking feet). It's about 2 and a half millennia before the invention of the wheelchair proper, but someone asked themselves: "If I had trouble walking, and needed a personal transport tool, what would it look like?" and imagined a wheelchair (with wings, 'cause divine).
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The one with his face missing is a cyclops, and helper in Hephaestus's workshop (the god had a habit of employing cyclopses and dwarfs, and other peoples who were marginalized by the Olympian gods -- solidarity, and all that, also: if you can't do it all yourself, hiring personal/professional assistants is perfectly okay).
Hephaestus is the one who's sitting down behind the shield ('cause he can't stand up very well -- and I notice that the fresco painter probably couldn't decide what his deformed feet actually looked like, so painted in a conveniently placed marble plinth instead. /artist work-arounds).
Here's another picture of Hephaestus that's one of my favorites (with normal looking feet). It's about 2 and a half millennia before the invention of the wheelchair proper, but someone asked themselves: "If I had trouble walking, and needed a personal transport tool, what would it look like?" and imagined a wheelchair (with wings, 'cause divine).