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Aphrodite: Love
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Aphrodite is more complicated than most Greek myth summaries give her credit for. That said, she does have her moments - like the one about Aphrodite's work ethic. You see, the Fates alotted Aphrodite one divine duty, and one only: to make love. Perhaps sex got old for her, perhaps she had a headache, who knows, but one day Athena found her at a loom. Athena immediately complained that her territory was being violated, and threatened to abandon the loom and everything that went with it. Aphrodite, not wanting to be stuck with too much to handle, apologized profusely, and never did a day of work after that. But that is NOT all there is to this Goddess.
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Aphrodite was married to the ugliest god, the fire-god and black-smith Hephaestus, but she had many lovers, among them Ares and Adonis. With Ares she had the daughter Harmonia. With Hermes she had Hermafroditus who was half man, half woman. With Dionysos she had the ugly, but popular Priapos.
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Aphrodite, born of the sea, daughter of Zeus and Dione, wife of Hephaistos but consort of Ares, was goddess of sexual love, beauty, and fertility. Images of Aphrodite from the Archaic and Early Classical periods are clothed and formal. However, from the fourth century BC through the Roman period, the image of the nude Aphrodite became a means of exploring female physical beauty, grace, and charm.
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[One] famous story about Aphrodite concerned her affair with Anchises. Zeus decided to give Aphrodite some of her own medicine. Aphrodite was fond of causing the gods to fall in love. This time Zeus caused Aphrodite to fall in love with a mortal named Anchises. In one version of the story, she appeared to Anchises as a beautiful mortal. Together they a son name Aeneas (Aeneas descendants became the founders of Rome) Aphrodite revealed her diety to Anchises, and he was very dismayed.
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In one version of the story of Hippolytus, Aphrodite was the catalyst for his death. He scorned the worship of Aphrodite for Artemis and, in revenge, Aphrodite caused his step-mother, Phaedra to fall in love with him, knowing Hippolytus would reject her. In the most popular version of the story, Phaedra seeks revenge against Hippolytus by killing herself and, in her suicide note, telling Theseus, her husband and Hippolytus' father, that Hippolytus had raped her. Theseus then murdered his own son before Artemis told him the truth.
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On another occasion Aphrodite developed a great passion for Anchises, a Trojan prince who watched his herds on Mount Ida. She wished him to fall in love with her, and going to him she claimed to be the daughter of the king of Phrygia, who had been abducted and left on the mountainside by Hermes. Anchises was taken by her beauty and laid with her. Afterwards she reveled who she really was to him and promised to bear him a son who would had a great destiny. This son was Aeneas. However, Aphrodite forbade Anchises to tell anyone of their love.
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