Hermaphroditus
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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hermaphroditus is a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. Because Hermaphroditus was a child of Hermes, and consequently a great-grandchild of Atlas, he is sometimes
Herculaneum fresco 1–50 AD, National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Hermaphroditos, holding a torch and a kantharos, between Silenus (right) and maenad (left); Roman fresco from the triclinium of the procurator in the Casa del Centenario (IX 8,3–6) in Pompeii
The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus by François-Joseph Navez (1829), based on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Hermaphroditus statue from Pergamum, Hellenistic, 3rd century BC (Istanbul)
Salmacis
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Salmacis was a naiad of Greek mythology. She rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness.
Hermaphroditus
…person, and he is a minor romance deity symbolizing intersexuality, androgyny, and marriage. Hermaphroditus is associated with the freshwater nymph Salmacis, who is represented variously as his nurse, wife, or attempted rapist. According to the Roman poet Ovid, he was born a remarkably beautiful endosex boy…
Water Nymph Salmacis, engraving by Philip Galle (1587)
La nymphe Salmacis by François-Joseph Bosio, 1826 (Louvre)
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