Dione's place in the divine generations changes with the source. Hesiod names lovely Dione among the three thousand Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. Pseudo-Apollodorus instead puts Dione directly among the Titanides born from Earth and Sky, beside Phoebe and Theia. The atlas keeps her Titan classification for that lens while preserving Hesiod's younger genealogy as a disputed parentage.2Hesiod · Pseudo-Apollodorus — Theogony 346–370; Bibliotheca 1.1.3⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

In Homer she appears above all as Aphrodite's mother. When Diomedes wounded the goddess through the wrist, Aphrodite fled to Olympus and fell upon Dione's knees. Dione clasped her daughter, stroked her with her hand and comforted her by recalling how other immortals had endured wounds from mortals before Zeus sent Aphrodite back to her rest.3Homer — Iliad 5.365–417

Pseudo-Apollodorus makes the relationship genealogically explicit: Zeus had Aphrodite by Dione. This is the same divine parentage assumed in Homer's scene, but it directly contradicts Hesiod's account in which Aphrodite grows from the white foam around the severed flesh of Uranus and has no mother.4Homer · Pseudo-Apollodorus · Hesiod — Iliad 5.370; Bibliotheca 1.3.1; Theogony 188–206⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card