The Connection Between Disability and the Arts in Classical Antiquity

We know less about women with disabilities than men because in the main it is men who are doing the writing. It seems that attention is paid to facial difference, hair loss, tooth loss, their physical appearances and thus their sexual attractiveness to men. But this could be bias in the sources. The Greek god of metalwork Hephaestus is the only Olympian with a physical impairment which affects his legs and feet. There seems to have been a strong connection between impairment and technology or technology and impairment in the minds of the Greeks and Romans.