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)
Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretised Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victor
Hermaphroditus
…religion and mythology, Hermaphroditus ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαφρόδιτος, ; sometimes conjugated with a feminine suffix as Hermaphrodite) is a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. Because Hermaphroditus was a child of Hermes, and consequently a great-grandchild of Atlas (Hermes' mother Maia was the daughter of Atlas…
The Ludovisi Cnidian Aphrodite, Roman marble copy (torso and thighs) with restored head, arms, legs and drapery support
Late second-millennium BC nude figurine of Ishtar from Susa, showing her wearing a crown and clutching her breasts
Early fifth-century BC statue of Aphrodite from Cyprus, showing her wearing a cylinder crown and holding a dove
Aphrodite Ourania, draped rather than nude, with her foot resting on a tortoise (Louvre)