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Getting Down & Dirty with Mortals, Aphrodite, Anchises & the Mysteries of Archaic Aeneas

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Aeneas and Diomedes in the Idiod War

Aeneas's name comes up often enough when the iliad mentions the trojan. He doesn't play a very large role or really do anything memorable, but his name is linked with this very memorable moment. Aphrodite swoops in and carries off her son, saving him from diomedes. Aeneas though he still saved, this time by apollo who swoops in when aphrodite is wounded. Not only is aeneas beloved by aphrodite in this way, she's willing to start a war between mortals and gods over him.

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