did hephaestos know that aphrodite was having an affair with ares?

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okay please help me.I need to know for school if Hephaestos,greek god, knew that Aphrodite,greek goddess, was having an affair with Ares,greek god, and if so how did he react.Please help me because I've tried to find this out and have had no luck so please please help me.
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Maddie

p.s. any other information about them would be helpful too.
 
The phrase "Love is blind" could be used to describe Haphestauses love for Aphrodite.

He didn't know that Ares was having an affair with Aphrodite. He was suspicious though and fashioned a net from which no one could escape. He caught them in bed together and captured them and hauled them naked infront of all the gods of Olympus. The female gods did not want to see the naked couple but the male gods stayed and found the situation so amusing that they let the lovers go.
 
The phrase "Love is blind" could be used to describe Haphestauses love for Aphrodite.

He didn't know that Ares was having an affair with Aphrodite. He was suspicious though and fashioned a net from which no one could escape. He caught them in bed together and captured them and hauled them naked infront of all the gods of Olympus. The female gods did not want to see the naked couple but the male gods stayed and found the situation so amusing that they let the lovers go.
 
Of course. He caught them in a celestial bronze net and invited all of the other gods to see.
 
Well, you should know by know that Hephaestus was the illegitimate child of Zeus who incurred Hera's (Zeus' wife) wrath. she threw him down to earth and shattered both his legs, making him lame and unsightly in the eyes of the other gods. he was amazing with his hands, so he constructed braces to help himself keep mobile, and hid himself away in a volcano (hence the roman god counterpart, Vulcan) where he worked and crafted beautiful things out of metal.

Aphrodite was of course, the goddess of love and beauty, born from three drops of blood that fell into the sea from Uranus as he fled his son Cronus. The sea foam formed her from the blood, and bore her to the shore. To prevent discord among the other gods, Zeus gave her to Hephaestus, and she resented being married to "the ugly one". She started an affair with Ares, god of war, big, strong and manly.

When Hephaestus found out, he was furious. He crafted a net, intricate and so fine as to be invisible. He caught them in it during one of their trysts, and dragged them up to Olympus to humiliate them. The gods laughed, but Poseidon, considered by some to be Aphrodite's father, promised Hephaestus that Ares would pay the adulterer's fine; Hephaestus also asked for Aphrodite's bride price back. Hephaestus kept Aphrodite, and it is debated whether Eros (known in Roman mythology as Cupid) was actually his son, or Ares' and raised by Hephaestus. However, Aphrodite and Ares did have a daughter, Harmonia, said to be a "second Aphrodite".

Aphrodite was extremely humiliated by the whole thing, and hated Hephaestus. In order to win her back, Hephaestus crafted a singularly beautiful necklace (sometimes girdle), and gave it to her. She realised at this point that she didn't need a man who was beautiful, just one who would love her and provide for her.

That ending is a little bit of a storybook ending, but it's one of the few Greek myths that are. I am madly in love with mythology, so most of this was prior knowledge, but I've listed my source below. :)

Hope this helped! :)
 
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