When they had been caught, Hephaestus went and told the other gods and goddesses to come to look at them and shame them. When they had been shamed and ridiculed, Hephaestus set them free. Aphrodite returned to
Greek Gods and Goddesses - Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon and Zeus.
Poseidon, God of the Sea and Zeus' brother, also sided with the Greeks whenever Zeus was not looking. An example of this constant intrusiveness of the Gods in the Iliad was when King "Menelaus hurls his spear, lightly wounding Paris. Paris' helmet strap becomes caught at his chin and ...
And on still another occasion, HEPHAESTUS The love goddess was married to the homely craftsman-god Hephaestus. She was unfaithful to him with Ares, and Homer relates in the Odyssey how Hephaestus had his revenge. IN ART Elsewhere in classical art she has no distinctive attributes other than...
of the other great gods, all of whom are shocked by her charm, and her surpassing beauty makes everyone desires to have her for his wife. Aphrodite is therefore also the goddess of beauty and gracefulness. She is still considered the personification of the generative power of nature, and ...
or a nude beardless young man with a helm and spear depicted. The marriage between Aphrodite and Hephaestus ended in drama after Helios (the sun god) caught the two together. Helios then flew to tell Hephaestus about the affair. Hephaestus in return trapped the two in the act and dragged ...
and, while he still had the soft flower of the splendour of youth upon him, still thought the light thoughs of a child, Aphrodite, the lover of laughter, swooped down and caught him away and set him in her holy temple to be her nocturnal temple-keeper, a Divine Spirit (Daimon Dios)....
It worked and they were caught in the act. Hephaestus, pissed off like nothing, called all of the gods to witness (and laugh their butts off at) their shame. Hephaestus got his bride-gifts back, and Poseidon (the sea god) convinced him to let the couple go (they were off like a ...
(Myth/Incredible Hercules#140 (fb)) - Eventually alerted about his wife by the light-god Apollo, Hephaestus caught Aphrodite and Ares together in one of their unions. She caught them in a net with a mechanical steed and paraded them around in Olympus until Zeus gave Aphrodite back to ...
ZeusandDione, his consort atDodona. In Book VIII of theOdyssey, Aphrodite was mismatched withHephaestus, the lame smith god, and she consequently spent her time philandering with the handsome god of war,Ares(by whom she became the mother ofHarmonia, the warrior twins Phobos and Deimos, and...