Aphrodite is the third daughter of Zeus and Dione in Homer's Iliad.
 According to the retelling of the story found in the poem Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC  17/18 AD), Adonis was the son of Myrrha, who was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus, after Myrrha's mother bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the goddess
 In another version, Hera cursed Aphrodite's unborn son because he had been fathered by Zeus

