He created an invisible net, which he set over the marriage bed. When he told Hephaestus, the smith god decided to plan his revenge. One day, the sun god Helios caught Ares and Aphrodite in their affair. Aphrodite had many lovers - both gods, such as Ares, and men, such as Anchises. Because of her beauty, other gods feared that their rivalry over her would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who, because of his ugliness and deformity, was not seen as a threat. According to Homer's Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus's genitals and threw them into the sea, and she arose from the sea foam ( aphros). There is more than one story about her origins. In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of Love, Beauty, Seduction, Pleasure, and Happiness.
