Venus, Mars and Vulcan
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In Greco-Roman mythology, Venus, Mars and Vulcan are the protagonists of a famous love triangle. Venus (Aphrodite) had a long-standing love affair with Mars (Ares), despite her marriage with Vulcan (Hephaestus).
Venus had been forced to marry Vulcan, but she did not love him because of his deformity and general unsightliness.
Their sons include Eros, Phobos and Deimos.
Full story
Vulcan is married to Venus, but she does not love him because he is deformed and, as a result, is cheating on him with Mars.
Hephaestus, being the most unfaltering of the gods, was given Aphrodite’s hand in marriage by Zeus in order to prevent conflict over her between the other gods.
Hephaestus and Aphrodite had an arranged marriage and Aphrodite, disliking the idea of being married to unsightly Hephaestus, began an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus found out about Aphrodite’s promiscuity from Helios, the all-seeing Sun, and planned a trap for them during one of their trysts. While Aphrodite and Ares lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible and dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution. However, the gods laughed at the sight of these naked lovers and Poseidon persuaded Hephaestus to free them in return for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterer's fine. Hephaestus states in the Odyssey that he would return Aphrodite to her father and demand back his bride price: this is the one episode that links them.
In Homer's Iliad the consort of Hephaestus is a lesser Aphrodite, Charis "the grace" or Aglaia "the glorious", the youngest of the Graces, as Hesiod calls her. Hephaestus fathered several children with mortals and immortals alike. One of those children was the robber Periphetes. With Thalia, Hephaestus was sometimes considered the father of the Palici.
The Thebans told that the union of Ares and Aphrodite produced Harmonia, as lovely as a second Aphrodite. But of her union with Hephaestus, there was no issue, unless Virgil was serious when he said that Eros was their child. Later authors might explain this statement when they say the love-god was sired by Ares but passed off to Hephaestus as his own son.
In art
- Vulcan at His Forge with Mars and Venus, 1543 by Enea Vico after Parmigianino
- Mars and Venus [1] by Agostino Carracci after I Modi
- Venus, Vulcan and Mars (Tintoretto)
- Venus and Mars (Botticelli)
- Venus, Mars, and Cupid by Cosimo
- Mars and Venus Caught in the Net by Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen)
- Athena Scorning the Advances of Hephaestus by Paris Bordone
- Mars and Venus[2] by Louis Lagrenée, 1770, Los Angeles, The Getty Center
See also
- The Loves of the Gods
- mythological painting
- Female promiscuity
- Adultery
- Venus and Mars (disambiguation)
- Mars and Venus Caught in the Net