Hermaphroditus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Aphrodite(parent),Hermes(parent)— Consort

  Hermes and Aphrodite were the parents of Hermaphroditus, a beautiful youth who became a being of both sexes when the nymph Salmacis fused with him.

Associated with

• Erotes

  Hermaphroditus is sometimes counted among the Erotes in late tradition, as a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. Hellenistic art occasionally depicts Hermaphroditus alongside the winged love gods.

• Salmacis

  The naiad Salmacis became infatuated with Hermaphroditus when he bathed in her pool near Halicarnassus. She embraced him and prayed to the gods never to be parted from him. The gods fused their bodies into a single being of both sexes.