Aphrodite and Ares: A Selfish Love Story
When one thinks of love stories it can be really easy to think of happy endings and sweet moments but not even the ancient stories when Gods and Goddesses were thought to walk amongst everyone were they wrapped so neatly in a bow. They were messy and big and did selfish things for love. None more so than the Greek Goddess of Love herself.... Once upon a time there was a Goddess. She was born of the sea and blood, said to be the most beautiful, the most desired and lovely of all the Goddesses. She was Aphrodite. She was said to be so beautiful that the other Goddesses grew jealous, angry and so the Queen of the Greek Gods Hera decided to force Aphrodite to marry her son Hephaestus the God of Blacksmiths, a God able to create beautiful things yet known to be the ugliest of them all and crippled with a limp. The marriage was not happy, childless with a husband who she felt did not deserve her she looked else where and her eyes quickly found Ares, the God of War. Tall, handsome, st...