>>95637882No, Homer has Hephaestus married to Charis, one of the Graces, they make a big deal of it when Thetis goes to see him in the Iliad. Hesiod married Hephaestus to a different Grace, I forget which, possibly a nymph.
Pindar very definitely married Ares and Aphrodite, along with Thebes, Sparta, Corinth, sometimes Athens, Thrace, and several others, including Pausanias and Herodotus.
The places where Hephaestus is married to Aphrodite is in that one story from the Odyssey and on Cyprus (because of the cult growth of a male-female pairing linked with beauty and metallurgy, which were co-opted into Hephaestus and Aphrodite). Maybe some others that I don't recall, admittedly, but it's kind of amusing that the two are married less than they are not, yet it's the former that gained prominence.
