Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and Dione in the Homeric tradition, a lineage affirmed in the Iliad where she retreats to Dione on Olympus after being wounded at Troy.
⚠ Hesiod's Theogony gives Aphrodite a radically different origin, born from sea foam around Uranus's severed genitals with no connection to Zeus. The two traditions coexisted in antiquity.
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