1. Gregory Nagy regards "the larger Homeric Hymns as simple preludes (compared with Theogony), each of which invokes one god".

2. Epimenides, (flourished 6th century bce ?), Cretan seer, reputed author of religious and poetical writings, including a Theogony, Cretica, and other mystical works

3. According to the version of her birth recounted by Hesiod in his Theogony, Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea.

4. Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty and according to Hesiod’s Theogony, she was born from the foam in the waters of Paphos, on the island of Cyprus

5. According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam (aphros) arose Aphrodite.

6. 2007, John Peterman, On Ancient Philosophy: The gods' Begettings in the Theogony are reminiscent of the biblical human Begettings in the Old Testament and emphasize their being in nature, unlike the Judaic God outside of it.

7. Aphrodite, ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus …