Aphrodite is the daughter of a Titaness in Homer's Iliad.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is born off the coast of Cythera from the foam (, aphrs) produced by Uranus's genitals, which his son Cronus had severed and thrown into the sea
 Aphrodite therefore causes Hippolytus's stepmother, Phaedra, to fall in love with him, knowing Hippolytus will reject her

