<P> The section of the Iliad that ancient editors called the Dios apate (the "Deception of Zeus") stands apart from the remainder of Book XIV . In this episode, Hera makes an excuse to leave her divine husband Zeus; in her deception speech she declares that she wishes to go to Oceanus, "origin of the gods", and Tethys the "mother". Instead Hera beautifies herself in preparation for seducing Zeus and obtains the help of Aphrodite . In the climax of the episode Zeus and Hera make love hidden within a golden cloud on the summit of Mount Ida . By distracting Zeus, Hera makes it possible for the Greeks to regain the upper hand in the Trojan War . </P> <P> The peculiarities of this episode were already being discussed in Antiquity . Even early commentators were shocked by the storyline and its implications for the morality of the gods . An expression of this moral criticism is found in Plato's Republic . </P>

In the iliad what does hera's borrow from aphrodite to entice zeus