Cyprus is famed aw the birthplace of Aphrodite. On this Mediterranean island, or to be more precise, on its south coast near the town of Pafos, the foam – born goddess, as the name denotes, is supposed to have risen from the waves. Hesiod’s version of the myth regarding Aphrodite begins with Uranos, the personification of the sky. Kronos, the son of Uranos and Gea (personification of the earth), castrates his father with a sickle. Off the south coast of Cyprus, Uranos’s genitals are metamorphosed into foam (aphros) from which Aphrodite rises.