In the following passage from Homer's great epic poem, the Iliad, a goddess visits Hephaestus at his home and workshop

She found him sweating as he turned here ami there at his bellows busily, since he was working on twenty tripods which were to stand against the wall of his strong-built home

And he had set golden wheels underneath the base of each one so that, by their own motion, they could wheel into the immortal gathering, and return to his house-a wonder to look at

He set the bellows away from the fire, and gathered and put away all the tools with which he worked in a silver strongbox Then with a sponge he wiped his forehead clean, and both hands, and his massive neck and hairy chest, and put on a tunic, and took up a heavy stick...