Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Aphrodite and Aries, a Greek Idea
Aphrodite is married, not to Aries, really specifically. She was unmarried for a long time and the god Hephaestus, who was a bit of a troublemaker at times, I think often for good reason, but he was. He said whoever could get Hera freed from this chair could marry Aphrodite. So they were married because of this, but they did not have a particularly happy marriage. They notoriously have no children together, which is almost unheard of in the Greek pantheon of gods,. whereas Aphrodite and Aries continued on with their affair and they have lots of children together. And so you have another overarching idea that love and war are linked
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