Aphrodite

Aphrodite is a Greek goddess. In the Greek poet HesiodHesiodGreek poet whose major work is generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, including the Theogony.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s TheogonyHesiod’s TheogonyGreek poem on divine generations and Zeus’s kingship; its surviving form does not identify all of Hesiod’s sources.Glossary · Click to read the explanation she arises from foam around Ouranos’s severed organ, cast into the sea by KronosKronosGreek divine figure and Zeus’s father; Hesiod connects his reign with struggles between divine generations.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. This is Hesiod’s account rather than every Greek genealogy. ^[1]

This birth gives the assault on Ouranos a consequence different from KumarbiKumarbiHurrian divine figure in Hittite CTH 344; challenges Anu and carries the storm god after swallowing his seed.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s pregnancy. The image here shows a Roman-period object from Dura-Europos, much later than the poem. ^[1][2]