The attendance of the Graces, Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Festivity), and Thalia (Rejoicing), was the assurance of peace and happiness.
They wove the material for Aphrodite’s robe (The Iliad, 5.338). They also tended to Aphrodite when she returned to Cyprus, humiliated after she had been caught in the trap her husband, Hephaestus, had set to catch her and Ares in the embrace of love (The Odyssey, 8.300). The Graces bathed her, anointed her with ambrosial oil and dressed her in delightful clothing so that she might resume her loving duties.
Homer used the beauty of the Graces ironically to depict the horror of war when he describes a dead Trojan soldiers hair as being ’lovely as the Graces’ before it was splattered with blood and mingled dirt. (The Iliad, 17.51