The Odyssey
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- Demodocus began to sing of the love of Ares and Aphrodite.
- They met in secret and would lie together in Hephaestus' bed.
- Hephaestus was blissfully unaware of his wife's infidelity.
- But Helios, the sun god, who had spied them sleeping together, came to tell him.
- My beloved Aphrodite with someone else and in my bed!
- Hephaestus I have seen your wife lie with Ares in your bed!
- Hephaestus decided to take his revenge and went to his smithy to start the work of his master plan.
- He made a net as fine as a spider's web and hung it above his bed so that it would fall on the unsuspecting lovers.
- He pretended to leave for Lemnos, known for being his favourite island.
- Goodbye sweetheart I already miss you!
- I am leaving for Lemnos, goodbye my dearest wife.
- He had just left when Ares came to Aphrodite once again.
- My love let us go to bed and make passionate love.
- So they went to the bed and lay down.
- Then Hephaestus’ net fell all around them, and they found that the more they struggled the tighter it became.
- There was no escape and they soon heard Hephaestus coming.
- Come Gods; come see something laughable and intolerable. My wife with the God Ares. i will keep them in this unbreakable net until Zeus gives me back the gifts I gave for her hand.
- When he entered the bedroom a terrible anger seized him. And he cried out to the gods...
- All the Goddesses refused to come but Hermes, Poseidon and Apollo answered Hephaestus' call. When they saw those who were trapped in the net unquenchable laughter flowed from them.
- Apollo I could have three nets on me and have the Gods watching and the Goddesses too if I could sleep with Aphrodite.
- Hermes wouldn't you like to lie with Aphrodite even if you were trapped in that net?
- At this laughter flowed once again from Hermes and Apollo but not from Poseidon. He wished for this debacle to end.
- Set Ares free, and he’ll pay what’s owed in the presence of us Gods
- Poseidon don’t ask this of me. Should I throw this net on you in front of the Gods if Ares escapes without paying his debts?
- If Ares does not pay his debt and escapes I will pay it myself.
- I can’t refuse you Poseidon
- And so he freed them from the net.
- As soon as they were freed they fled from the bedroom.
- Ares headed for Thrace.
- Aphrodite headed to Paphos in Cyprus, where the Graces bathed her, and covered her with the heavenly oil of the Gods and dressed her in beautiful clothes, marvellous to behold.
- This was the song of Ares and Aphrodite by the famous bard Demodocus.
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