Who is Aphrodite?

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, sex, and beauty. Her father is Uranos, the god of the sky, and she has no mother.  This story takes place two generations before Zeus, when Uranos reigned with his wife Gaia, the goddess of the earth.  Uranos hated his children and hid them in the depths of the earth, until Gaia, loathing her husband, devised a plan with her son Cronus.  She equipped her son with a sickle and, when Uranos next came to sleep with Gaia, Cronus chopped off his genitals.  The severed parts fell into the ocean and sea foam enveloped them.  From this foam emerged the goddess Aphrodite.  In ancient Greece, men and gods would go to war over a woman’s beauty so Zeus, as the leader of the Olympic goods suspected that Aphrodite would cause a jealous stir among the gods as long as she remained single. He then married her to Hephaestus, the unattractive and partly crippled god of blacksmithing.

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