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Aphrodite: two accounts of her origins
Hesiod describes emergence from sea foam; the Iliad identifies Zeus and Dione as parents. Keeping the sources separate avoids a misleading single family tree.
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Dione in the Iliad
Dione appears when Aphrodite returns wounded from battle; the narrator explicitly identifies their mother–daughter relationship.
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Ouranos in Theogony
The sky born from Gaia, and a central figure in the narrative sequence preceding Aphrodite’s emergence.
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Gaia: Earth in divine origins
Gaia appears near the opening of Theogony and brings forth Ouranos before the narrative expands into the Titans’ genealogy.
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Kronos: between Ouranos and Zeus
Theogony connects Kronos to transitions between divine generations, as a son of Ouranos and father of Zeus.
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Rhea in the birth of Zeus
Rhea links two generations in Theogony: child of Gaia and Ouranos, and mother of Zeus.
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Zeus: reading kinship through sources
Theogony names Rhea and Kronos as parents; Iliad Book V uses Aphrodite’s relationship to Zeus in another narrative context.
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Athena: a birth in Hymn 28
Read the scene of Athena emerging from Zeus without merging every tradition.
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Artemis: from the hunt to the dance
Hymn 27 moves its goddess from the mountains to Apollo’s house.
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Poseidon: sea, horses and a safe passage
Hymn 22 invokes a god associated with shaking earth and helping ships.
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