Khornelius
Overlord of the Underworld
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What about the fight on Santa Prisca
I know there are others but that's the first one I know he sang during.
How do you know she gets away with it? The battle just ended and Hephaestaean was dealing with the cleanup of his new throne room. And Ares knew Aphrodite was married so that means, hands off, he wasn't innocent.
Ok first, if someone is Married they are not available! Having sex with someone else's spouse is wrong!
Whether its Zeus, Ares, or Aphrodite it's wrong.
Second, this link will take you to a translation of Aphrodite's five lovers but the important part is after that.
https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/AphroditeLoves.html
"Ares, god of the golden reins, was no blind watcher. Once he had seen Hephaistos go, he himself approached the great craftman's dwelling, pining for love of Kytherea [Aphrodtie]. As for her, she had just returned from the palace of mighty Zeus her father, and was sitting down in the house as Ares entered it. He took her hand and spoke thus to her : 'Come, my darling; let us go to bed and take our delight together. Hephaistos is no longer here; by now, I think, he has made his way to Lemnos, to visit the uncouth-spoken Sintians.'"
So Ares went to Hephaestus' house and propositioned Aphrodite for sex on her bed. He is responsible for them having sex, if he had stayed away they would not have been caught in the net. Heck in greek society married women were kept away from non related men so Ares was breaking customs and vows. Now Aphrodite is just as responsible she should have said no every time Ares came around because I will point out,THEY HAD 4 KIDS, whether any or all of them were born before they were caught I don't know, but either she passed off someone else's kids as Hephaestus' or they continued their dalliance after they were caught and Zeus, in this story, forbid Hephaestus from divorcing her. So I would have no problem with a similar or worse punishment on her, but violence against women is frowned on especially when that violence is sexual violence. So it will probably be a stripping of her power or being forced into another lesser position.
Where? Where in her nature dose she have cheating? She is the goddess of love not just sex. None of the Gods knew she was schtupping Ares until Helios told Hephaestus. The cheating was her choice.
I wouldn't be surprised if in RL the cheating myth started from a Spartan myth. They worshipped Aphrodite Areia who was a Goddess of love and war. She was essentially all the things Sparta liked about war, where as Ares was all the things they hated. The Spartans probably saw them as a more natural parring then the more culturally accepted pairing of Aphrodite & Hephaestus. This is because you can't have all the good things about war without having all the bad things too.
Tech-Priest Khornelius 3:16: Apologies my lord but I do prefer the Spartan version of your wife more then the Iliad version of your wife.