Hum. I dunno, I took it at face value (it's not the gods' business to correct the heroic mortal's mistaken assumptions/beliefs, and killing Ares left a void that necessarily had to be filled, though now that I think about it why he wasn't approached immediately after killing Ares is a bit of a puzzler when taking it like this [unless the gods figured he'd know all this, or do it anyway because he'd want to be a god himself, or whatever]). It'd be different, I suppose, if she weren't communicating mostly through emotionless statues and had more visible signs of love, but she's not, and she doesn't manage that anyway as far as I could see, and it wasn't like they had too many tender moments anyway, so it never crossed my mind.