entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,Library 1.3.1; born from Ouranos's severed genitals cast into the sea (Hesiodic version); Library accounts of the Trojan War genealogy
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV,scholarly attestation,"Burkert (1992) pp. 97-100: Aphrodite as the primary Greek reception of the Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar and Phoenician Astarte; the orientalizing context of the Cypriot Aphrodite cult; the ""oriental"" features that distinguish Aphrodite from typical Olympic goddesses"
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 188-206: the sea-foam Aphrodite birth — Ouranos's severed genitals fall into the sea near Cyprus; white foam gathers around them and a girl grows from it; she is called Aphrodite (""foam-born"") and Kythereia; Hesiod's account is the basis for Botticelli's Venus; it conflicts with Homer's version (daughter of Zeus and Dione); Hesiod is primary for the sea-birth tradition"
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS,direct attestation,HH 5 (To Aphrodite): narrates how Zeus causes Aphrodite to fall in love with the mortal Anchises; she lies with him and from their union Aeneas is born; the primary text for Aphrodite's relationship with Anchises and the divine genealogy of Aeneas; also HH 6 (birth from sea-foam) and HH 10
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,"Aphrodite rescues Paris from Menelaus (Iliad III.380-420); is wounded by Diomedes (Iliad V.330-430); her mother here is Dione (Il. V.370) rather than the sea-foam tradition; Iliad III, V, XIX"
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION,direct attestation,"Pausanias documents major Aphrodite sanctuaries: the important cult at Corinth (Book 2.4.7: temple on Acrocorinth with sacred prostitution), the Aphrodite Ourania sanctuary at Athens (Book 1.14.7), and the Cnidian Aphrodite tradition"
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_SAPPHO_FRAGMENTS,primary text attestation,invoked in the lyric fragments of Sappho
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity.
ENT_APHRODITE,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."