She and her twin Apollo favor the Trojans, and over the coming years they each will do what they can to advance that cause. As will their mother, the ancient Titaness Leto. Aphrodite has naturally been on the Trojan side ever since Paris awarded her the Apple of Discord (and perhaps before, when she coupled with Anchises and bore his child, Aeneas). Ares too, the god of war and Aphrodite’s lover, has aligned himself with Troy.
