Deity Twelve Olympians
Aphrodite
Ἀφροδίτη grc
Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation
- Child of Zeus, Uranus and Dione
- Consort of Hephaestus, Ares
In brief
Aphrodite offers a clear reason to keep accounts apart. In Iliad Book 5 she is described as Zeus’s daughter and takes refuge with her mother Dione after being wounded. In the Theogony, she emerges from sea foam around Uranus’s severed flesh.
Those accounts are not two pieces of one family tree. Under the family tree, each passage is shown on its own, with the relationships it names and a link to read it.
Sources: Homer, Iliad 5.370–371 · Hesiod, Theogony 176–206
Overview
Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreationWikidata record description. Read Aphrodite in the Wikipedia reader.
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Family tree
As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.
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The family as a list · 46
Kinship in an account 38
- child of (child) Dione Greek goddess, mother of Aphrodite
- child of (child) Evonyme
- child of (child) Gaia Greek primordial deity, the personification of the Earth
- child of (child) Uranus primordial Greek deity, god of the Sky; one of the Greek primordial deities
- child of (child) Zeus Greek god of the sky and king of the gods
- parent of (mother) Adrestia Greek Goddess of revolt, just retribution and sublime balance between good and evil
- parent of (child) Aeneas Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite
- parent of (mother) Anteros The God of Selfless Love in Greek mythology
- parent of (mother) Beroe nymph in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Charites Greek goddesses of grace and beauty
- parent of (mother) Deimos personal god of dread and terror in Greek mythology
- parent of (mother) Eros Greek god of love and sex
- parent of (child) Eryx in Greek mythology, king of the city Eryx in Sicily
- parent of (child) Golgos minor Greek mythological figure
- parent of (mother) Harmonia ancient Greek goddess of harmony and concord, spouse of Cadmus; her opposite is Eris
- parent of (mother) Hermaphroditus son of Aphrodite and Hermes in Greek mythology
- parent of (mother) Himeros son of Ares and Aphrodite, represents sexual desire
- parent of (mother) Hymen Greek god of marriage ceremonies
- parent of (child) Lyrus mythological Greek character, son of Aphrodite and Anchises
- parent of (mother) Peitho personification of Persuasion or winning eloquence in Greek mythology
- parent of (mother) Phobos personification of fear in Greek mythology
- parent of (mother) Phthonus ancient Greek deity personifying jealousy and envy
- parent of (child) Polycaon son of Butes and Aphrodite
- parent of (mother) Pothos Greek divinity, desire/yearning personified
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- parent of (mother) Priapus ancient Greek deity
- parent of (mother) Rhodos Goddess of Rhodes in Greek mythology
- parent of (mother) Tyche Greek goddess of fortune
- partner of Adonis Greek god of beauty and desire
- partner of Anchises father of Aeneas in Greek mythology, lover of Aphrodite
- partner of Ares Greek god of war and combat
- partner of Butes Argonaut, son of Teleon in Greek Mythology
- partner of Dionysus ancient Greek god of winemaking and wine
- partner of (spouse) Hephaestus Greek god of blacksmiths
- partner of Hermes Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology; the emissary and messenger of the gods; the god of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers, and athletes; the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia
- partner of Phaethon son of Helios from Greek mythology
- partner of Phaethon son of Eos by Cephalus or Tithonus in Greek mythology
- partner of Poseidon one of the twelve Olympians presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses
- partner of Zeus Greek god of the sky and king of the gods
Family 8
- parent of (mother) Aeneas Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite
- parent of (mother) Charites Greek goddesses of grace and beauty
- parent of (mother) Eryx in Greek mythology, king of the city Eryx in Sicily
- parent of (mother) Thestius son of Agenor in Greek mythology
- partner of Anchises father of Aeneas in Greek mythology, lover of Aphrodite
- partner of Butes Argonaut, son of Teleon in Greek Mythology
- partner of Phaethon son of Helios from Greek mythology
- sibling of Manes king of Maeonia
In the ancient sources
- Aphrodite in the Iliad
Book 5 calls Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus and describes Dione receiving her daughter.
Read the passage · 5.311–318; 5.370–371 - Aphrodite in the Theogony
Aphrodite emerges in sea foam around the severed flesh of Uranus.
Uranus Origin from Uranus’s flesh in sea foam
Read the passage · 176–206
Explained connections
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