Cythera

Cythera is the large island south of the Peloponnesus, and the easternmost island in the group of islands known as the Ionian Islands.

Cythera is a cult centre of Aphrodite. One of her epithets was Cythereia; Hesiod wrote:

Her gods and men call Aphrodite, and the foam-born goddess, and rich-crowned Cytherea, because she grew amidst the foam, and Cytherea, because she reached Cythera, and....

Hesiod, Theogony 194-198

When Cronus severed Uranus' genitals, blood fell from his wound into the sea. Foam formed from the mixing of blood and sea water. The foam formed near the island of Cythera, and from there, it floated all the way to Cyprus, where Aphrodite was born. So the island was important to the goddess of love.