 She fell in love with Anchises seeing him herding sheep on Mount Ida after Zeus persuaded Eros to shoot her an arrow to cause it.One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian princess and seduced him, only to later reveal herself and inform him that they would have a son named Aeneas; Aphrodite had warned Anchises that if he told anyone about her being the mother of his child, Zeus would strike him down with his thunderbolt.He did not heed her warning and was struck with a thunderbolt, which in different versions either blinds him or kills him.