An island south of the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
Aphrodite, goddess of love, spontaneously came into existence when water from the sea mixed with the blood of Ouranos (god of the heavens). Aphrodite swam to Kythera to make her first landfall.
During the Trojan War, Odysseus and Diomedes donned various pieces of armor for their spy mission into the Trojan camp. Odysseus wore a unique skullcap that had once been the possession of Amphidamas of Kythera.
An Achaian soldier named Lykophron killed a man on Kythera and left the island to become a henchman of Telamonian Aias. Trojan Prince Hektor threw his spear at Aias, missed and killed Lykophron.
| References: Homer, Iliad book 10, line 268; book 15, lines 431, 432, 438 Hesiod, Theogony lines 176–206 |