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Hermaphroditusby Ryan Tuccinardi
The name given to all people with both masculine and feminine qualities, and more particularly applied to a son of Aphrodite and Hermes.
Hermaphroditus was raised by nymphs in Phrygia. He was remarkably handsome. One day, he was walking by a lake when the nymph of the lake fell in love with him. She made advances which the young man rebuffed. Hermaphroditus was attracted by the clear water, undressed himself and jumped into the lake. The nymph, Salmacis, saw him and embraced him, but he tried to get away. Salmacis prayed to the gods that they should never be separated, the gods granted this wish and fused them into one body. Hermaphroditus thereupon asked the gods that anybody who bathed in this lake should lose his virility, which was also granted.
Ovid IV, 288.
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Hermaphroditus
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus by Bartholomeus Spranger (c. 1598)In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos (Greek ʽἙρμάφρόδιτός) was the child of Aphrodite and Hermes. Born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an intersexual being by union with the nymph Salmacis. His name is the basis for the word hermaphrodite.
Hermaphroditus' name is derived from those of his parents Hermes and Aphrodite. He was raised by nymphs on Mount Ida, a sacred mountain in Phrygia (present day Turkey). At the age of fifteen, he grew bored of his surroundings and traveled the cities of Lycia and Caria. It was in the woods of Caria, near Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) that he encountered Salmacis the Naiad in her pool. She was overcome by lust for the boy, and tried to seduce him, but was rejected. When he thought her to be gone, Hermaphroditus undressed and entered the waters of the empty pool. Salmacis sprang out from behind a tree and jumped into the pool. She wrapped herself around the boy, forcibly kissing him and touching his breast. While he struggled, she called out to the gods that they should never part. Her wish was granted, and their bodies blended into one intersexual form. Hermaphroditus, in his shame and grief, made his own vow, cursing the pool so that any other who bathes within it shall be transformed as well.
from Wikipedia
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Hermaphroditus (hərmăfrədī'təs) , in Greek mythology, beautiful son of Hermes and Aphrodite. He scorned the nymph Salmacis, who prayed that they might never be separated. When Hermaphroditus swam in her stream, she combined with him, uniting male and female characteristics in one body—hence the origin of the word hermaphrodite.
from Columbia Encyclopedia
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Hermaphrodītus in Greek myth, son of Hermēs and Aphroditē, who was loved by Salmacis, the nymph of the fountain in which he bathed, near Halicarnassus. She closely embraced him and prayed to the gods to make them one body, which they did. In art Hermaphroditus is accordingly portrayed as a beautiful youth with developed breasts.
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
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