Key Info

- Created by the Cyclopes for Zeus as reward for freeing them from Tartarus.

- Most powerful weapon in Greek Mythology 

- Able to kill immortals or banish them to Tartarus

Brief Bio

A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap. In Indo-European mythology, the thunderbolt was identified with the 'Sky Father'; this association is also found in later Hellenic representations of Zeus and Vedic descriptions of the vajra wielded by the god Indra. It may have been a symbol of cosmic order, as expressed in the fragment from Heraclitus describing "the Thunderbolt that steers the course of all things".