The fates of Aphrodite’s mortal lovers are very balanced, in a sense that there is an equal amount of bad and good ones
Let’s get the bad out of the way first. We have Anchises, father of Aeneas. Aphrodite, while under the effects of a love spell, tricked him into bedding her by saying that she was just a priestess send by Hermes to marry him and not a goddess, after the act she revealed him that she was a goddess and told him she felt great shame for sleeping with a mortal, he got either blinded, killed or crippled after revealing that his son’s mother was Aphrodite and his city got sacked because Aphrodite promised a married woman to the prince. Phaethon son of Eos was kidnapped, according to a source he was no more than a child and she made him the watchman of her most sacred temple
I will put Adonis as a neutral fate. We know Aphrodite loved him the most and he loved her back as he chose to spend his months with her. But, other than the complex topic of Aphrodite’s meddling on his family and his upbringing on the underworld, he died very brutally by a boar who was send by either Ares, Apollo or Artemis. He is said to have been revived later as a dying and rising god similarly to Damuzid, a Mesopotamian god lover of Ishtar who Adonis derived from
Finally the good ones. Butes was an Argonaut and while the crew was passing the sirens he god seduced by their song and jumped into the water, Aphrodite herself carried him off damsel in distress style to Sicily where she made him her lover. The only reason they aren’t perfect is because there is a chance Aphrodite only stayed with him to make Adonis jealous, but the only source I can find for that is the Wikipedia, that isn’t always reliable for Greek mythology. And the best one is Phaon who was an old ugly boatman that ferried Aphrodite (who was disguised as an old lady) for free and as a reward she gave him a beauty cream that made him young and sexy
















