Aphrodite wasn't particularly associated with childbirth as much as she was with conception, but there were several goddesses (and gods) associated with marriage, Aphrodite definitely being one of them, at least according to Plutarch, who enumerates five deities he calls the Gamelioi, "Marriage-Divinities," namely Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Peïtho (the personification of persuasion, who was part of Aphrodite's retinue) and (even!) Artemis. Of these five Plutarch said that those who married required their protection, although some poets also said the same of the Moirai (the three Fates). Moreover, according to the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology and Biography, "in fact, nearly all the gods might be regarded as the protectors of marriage, though the five mentioned by Plutarch perhaps more particularly than others." The Orphics also invoke Aphrodite specifically as the "Goddess of Marriage" in their hymn dedicated to her, and Zeus, in the Iliad, (though derisively) refers to marriage as her domain.