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The two mortals Aphrodite marries in some versions. These are my old designs but I am pretty sure I never posted them here

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Divine Loves

Nerites: Nerites was a young sea-god and her very first love. When Aphrodite was ascending to join the other gods at the Olympos, she asked him to go with her as her companion. But Nerites refused, as he didn’t want to leave his family and the sea. Feeling betrayed, Aphrodite transformed him into a shellfish.

Hermes: Hermes, stirred by Aphrodite's beauty, fell in love with her. When she rejected him, he fell into depression, as if in disgrace. Zeus pitied him, and when Aphrodite was bathing in the river Achelous, he sent and eagle to take her sandal and give it to Hermes. Aphrodite went searching for the sandal, found it with Hermes and layed with him. She bore him a son, Hermaphroditos.

Ares: one day, Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' lance. Eros told him that his lance was very heavy, and when Ares tried to hold it, Aphrodite smiled gently at him. Watching attentively the whole scene, Eros then offered his lance for Ares to keep, bounding Ares and Aphrodite in love. Ares and Aphrodite had two sons, Deimos and Phobos, and a daughter, Harmonia.

Hephaistos: Hephaistos was thrown out of Olympos by his own mother Hera at birth, as she was ashamed to have a crippled son. Angry at his mother's treatment, Hephaistos sent her a cursed Golden Throne. When the goddess sat on it, she was bound fast. Zeus, wanting to free his wife, offered Aphrodite in marriage to the god who could bring Hephaistos to Olympos. Aphrodite agreed to the arrangement, in the belief that her beloved Ares would be able to do it. Ares stormed the forge of Hephaistos, bearing arms, but was driven back by the Divine Smith with showers of flaming metal. Dionysos next approached the forge, and suggested that Hephaistos could claim Aphrodite for himself if he were to release his mother willingly. Hephaistos was pleased with the plan and ascended to Heaven with Dionysos, released his mother and married a very reluctant Aphrodite.

Dionysos: he apparently had a short and mysterious affair with Aphrodite after that. Some say Iakkhos was their child.

Poseidon: Apollo saw Aphrodite's adultery with Ares. Shocked at the sight, he went and told Hephaistos. Heartbroken and infuriated, Hephaistos forged a net made of tiny links of bronze, too small for even the eye to see. He then thrown the net over Aphrodite and Ares, securing their naked bodies tightly in his trap. Hephaistos called the whole Olympos to watch the two gods in that shameful situation. Everybody laughed at them, except for Poseidon. He convinced Hephaistos of setting off the trap. Grateful for his support, Aphrodite later had an affair with Poseidon. She bore him two daughters, Rhodos and Herophilos. 

Zeus: he once chased Aphrodite on the island of Kypros, but the goddess managed to escape his pursuit. On a later ocasion, she consentfully had an affair with him, but Zeus’ wife Hera, full of jealous, laid her hands upon the belly of Aphrodite and cursed their offspring with malformity. Their child was the ugly Priapos.

Mortal Loves

Ankhises: Aphrodite once was mocking all the gods, saying that she had joined them in love with mortal women and men while she herself never experienced such thing. As a punishment for her arrogance, Zeus cast upon her the desire to join a mortal man as well. The chosen man was Ankhises, and when Aphrodite saw him, she instantly fell in love. She bore him two sons, Aeneas and Lyros.

Adonis: because of his beauty, Aphrodite secreted him away in a chest, keeping it from the gods, and left him with Persephone. But when Persephone got a glimpse of Adonis, she refused to return him to Aphrodite. When the matter was brought to Zeus for arbitration, he divided the year into three parts and decreed that Adonis would spent one third of the year by himself, one third with Persephone and one third with Aphrodite. Adonis always chose to spend two thirds of his year with Aphrodite anyways. One day, while hunting, he was attacked by a boar (some say it was a jealous Ares in disguise) and died. Aphrodite bore him a daughter, Beroe.

Boutes: Boutes was one of the Argonauts. As the Argonautoi sailed past the Seirenes, Orpheus started to sing a song to offset the effect of their singing. The only one to swim off to them was Boutes. He was rescued by Aphrodite when he leapt into to the sea. She carried him off to Lilybaion as her lover and bore him a son, Eryx.

Phaethon: Eos gave birth to a glorious son, Phaethon, a man considered of the likeness of the immortals. While he was still a child, Aphrodite swooped down and caught him away and set him in her holy temple to be her temple-keeper. She later bore him a son, Astynoos.

Source: The Theoi Project ♡

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Aphrodite in her homeric hymn telling Anchises how much shame she is felling for laying down with a mortal

Lucian dialogues:

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Out of curiosity, which one of Aphrodite's mortal lovers would you rather be?

Adonis

Anchises

Butes

Phaon

Phaethon son of Eos

I am running away in the other direction

Voting ended onApr 3

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A giant woman! Thats Ankhises and Aphrodite, idk if the artist messed up the proportions or if it was intentional to show that she is a goddess but they look funny next to each other xD

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Aphrodite wanting to make Ankhises be young again is actually crazy

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In the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, Aphrodite and Anchises were definitely into each other but their encounter had dubious consent from both parties...

Aphrodite didn't want to lay with a mortal and thought it to be shameful, she wouldn't have slept with him if Zeus hadn't cast desire on her

But upon Aphrodite herself Zeus cast sweet desire to be joined in love with a mortal man, to the end that, very soon, not even she should be innocent of a mortal's love; lest laughter-loving Aphrodite should one day softly smile and say mockingly among all the gods that she had joined the gods in love with mortal women who bare sons of death to the deathless gods, and had mated the goddesses with mortal men.

Then Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus answered him: "Anchises, most glorious of mortal men, take courage and be not too fearful in your heart. You need fear no harm from me nor from the other blessed ones, for you are dear to the gods: and you shall have a dear son who shall reign among the Trojans, and children's children after him, springing up continually. His name shall be Aeneas, because I felt awful grief in that I laid me in the bed of mortal man

And now because of you I shall have great shame among the deathless gods henceforth, continually. For until now they feared my jibes and the wiles by which, or soon or late, I mated all the immortals with mortal women, making them all subject to my will. But now my mouth shall no more have this power among the gods; for very great has been my madness, my miserable and dreadful madness, and I went astray out of my mind who have gotten a child beneath my girdle, mating with a mortal man.

Anchises didn't want to lay with an immortal in fear of what could happen to him, he wouldn't have slept with her if Aphrodite was truthful about her identity [she literally told him she was there to marry him]

Thereupon Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus answered him: "Anchises, most glorious of all men born on earth, know that I am no goddess: why do you liken me to the deathless ones? Nay, I am but a mortal, and a woman was the mother that bare me. [...] And now the Slayer of Argus with the golden wand has caught me up from the dance of huntress Artemis, her with the golden arrows. [...] And he said that I should be called the wedded wife of Anchises, and should bear you goodly children. [...] So do, and then prepare the sweet marriage that is honourable in the eyes of men and deathless gods."

And when they had gone up upon the well-fitted bed, first Anchises took off her bright jewelry of pins and twisted brooches and earrings and necklaces, and loosed her girdle and stripped off her bright garments and laid them down upon a silver-studded seat. Then by the will of the gods and destiny he lay with her, a mortal man with an immortal goddess, not clearly knowing what he did.

But when he saw the neck and lovely eyes of Aphrodite, he was afraid and turned his eyes aside another way, hiding his comely face with his cloak. Then he uttered winged words and entreated her: "So soon as ever I saw you with my eyes, goddess, I knew that you were divine; but you did not tell me truly. Yet by Zeus who holds the aegis I beseech you, leave me not to lead a palsied life among men, but have pity on me; for he who lies with a deathless goddess is no hale man afterwards."

Anyways, Lucian said that she kept coming back to mount Ida to meet him so uh.... did they just thought "well the shit is already done, we can't go back time, might as well just have a good time" or something?

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Ankhises 😭 'he was afraid and turned his eyes aside', 'hiding his comely face with a cloak', "I beseach you, leave me not to lead a palsied life", "have pity on me"... someone need to save Ankhises from that place imediatly

This whole interaction feel just like the song 'Red Flags'