Introduction

In homer's iliad, there is a rather steamy bit in which hera decides to seduce her husband. The reason she wants to do this is that she's backing the greek invaders against the trojans and zeus is on the trojan side. In order to help the greeks, she needs to get zeus to stop paying attention for a while. And a sure fire way to get a man's attention is to seduce him, right? So with a little help from aphrodite and the god sleep, whom she bribes by promising to let him marry one of the divine graces, she persuades zeus to lie with her. After