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Some say that Hera was her mother.

Other legends say that she was born when Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw his severed genitals into the sea, and from the aphros (sea foam) arose Aphrodite.

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As goddess of love and lust, she had a lot of children. I put details only by the most well-known.

Anteros

Beroe

Deimos

Eros--minor god of love, also known as Cupid, husband of Psyche, twin of Himeros

Himeros--minor god of lust, twin of Eros

Harmonia

Hermaphroditos

Iakkhos

Peitho--not all stories agree that she was Aphrodite's daughter; most call her the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.

Phobos--god of panic

Priapos

Rhodos--goddess of the island Rhodes, wife of Helios

Aeneas--led Trojans in the Trojan war, founded Rome

Astynoos

Eryx

Herophilos or Herophile--prophetess

Lyros

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