Aphrodite
was
foam
born
somewhere near the coast of
Cyprus.
His strange birth took place
when
Cronus
cut the
genitals of his father
Uranus
to set his brothers and sisters free of the Tartarus.
Ηe
threw the
genitals behind him in
the sea, but
there was still some
sperm inside and there where
it touched the water foam
arose and Aphrodite
grew from it. Another version says that Aphrodite is
the daughter of
Zeus and Dione.
She
was the goddess of love and lovers. She liked to make people fall in love and also to confuse the other
gods.
The
goddess was married to the
god Hephaestus,
but she had affairs quite often mostly with
Ares, the god of war. The god of
the sun Helios
managed to prove this and
told
it to Hephaestus. After
this, Hephaestus catched
them one day red-handed
and captured them with a thin net
that he had hidden
above the bed.
Out
of her relation with
Ares were born
Eros (there is also another versions
about the parents of Eros),
Deimos,
Phobus and
Harmonia. Aphrodite had
also many other love affairs,
as for instance with the beautiful
Adonis.
She
adore roses and
myrtles and
drives a carriage drag by doves,
which were her favourite animals.
