![]() ![]() However, in the interactions between Aphrodite and Anchises, together with the birth and naming of their child, Aineias, a more powerful and anthropologically more important explanation is provided, one that both defines and fundamentally separates gods from humans: mortality. Initially, the reticence of the gods to enter these relationships is depicted as a matter of honor among the society of the gods. The hymn begins with the problematic situation of gods forced (or tricked) into romantic relationships with mortals. ![]() While the relationship(s) between Aphrodite, Anchises, and Aeneas are certainly valuable to keep in mind when studying the Trojan War, this hymn carries a significance independent of its connection to the war, and that is the relationship between gods and humans in the Greek world that pervades all of the klea andron (stories of heroes, "fames of humans"). The textbook’s introduction suggests that this is the oldest of the hymns because its linguistic similarity to Homeric language is closer than the other hymns, and the subject matter is related to a hero in the Homeric epic (the Iliad). ![]()
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