Aerial view of the island of Kythira also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira. Kythira is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, although it is distant from the main group. Administratively, it belongs to the Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica region, despite its distance from the Saronic Islands, around which the rest of Attica is centered. As a municipality, it includes the island of Antikythera to the south. Kythira Island is the birthplace of Aphrodite, goddess of love, according to Hesiod

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