erally catching
             the while they were making love. He got out a bronze hunting-net and attached to the
             posts and sides of the bed. He told Aphrodite that he was to a short holiday trip to
             Lemnos. Aphrodite did not offer to go with him. When Hephaestus left, she sent
             hurriedly for Ares and the two immediately went to sleep together. When they went to
             At dawn, Hephaestus returned from his trip. He summoned all of the gods
             together so they could see what Aphrodite and Ares did. Hephaestus thought that, by
             Zeus seeing how Aphrodite deceived him, Zeus would return all of the marriage gifts.
             Instead, Zeus told Hephaestus that this should handled by him and Aphrodite instead of
             being made a public affair, therefore Zeus did not return the marriage gifts.9
             After Aphrodite had been publicly humiliated, she returned to Paphos and renewed
             her virginity to the sea. Soon afterwards, Hermes confessed his love for her, and she slept
             with him. She eventually bore a double-sexed child name Hermaphroditus.
             Poseidon, like Hermes, also confessed his love for her, and she bore him two sons
             named Rhodus and Herophilus. Later Aphrodite also slept with Dionysus in which she
             bore a deformed son by him. The deformity was caused by Hera; she did this in
             disapproval of Aphrodite's permiscuity.10
             Later, Zeus wanted to humiliate Aphrodite by making her fall in love with a mortal
             named Anchises. He was a handsome man, and he was the King of the Dardanians. One
             night Aphrodite visited him without him knowing who she was. When they Parted at
             dawn, she revealed her identity and told him not to tell
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