 The temperature is typically 2 to 5 degrees Celsius less than in Athens, especially in summertime.For ancient Greeks, the island was sacred to Hephaestus, god of metallurgy, who—as he tells himself in "Iliad" I.590ff—fell on Lemnos when Zeus hurled him headlong out of Olympus.There, he was cared for by the Sinties, according to "Iliad", or by Thetis (Apollodorus, "Bibliotheke" I