Hermaphroditus

Hermaphroditus
Herculaneum fresco 1–50 AD, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
God of Hermaphroditism and Effeminacy
General Information
Species	Daemon/Nymph/Olympian
Form	Humanoid
Race	Eros (as a daemon)/Halia (as a nymph; Naiad) hybird
Biological sex	Hermaphroditic
Gender identity	Androgynous
Aliases	Atlantiades
Abodes	Mount Ida
Moral alignment	Good
Relationships
Parents	Hermes and Aphrodite
Grandparents	Zeus and Maia (paternal); Zeus and Dione (maternal, Homer) Uranus (maternal grandfather, Hesiod)
Consorts	Silenus
Languages
Elliniká(Greek)	Ερμαφρόδιτος
Hellēnikḗ(Ancient Greek)	Ἑρμαφρόδιτος
International Phonetic Alphabet	/həːˌmáfrəˈdɑ́jtəs/ [həːˌmáfɹəˈdɑ́ːjtˢʰəs] (Current Southern English) /həːrˌmáfrəˈdɑ́jtʊs/ [hɚːʁˌmáfʁəˈdɑ́ːjtˢʰʊs] (Northern English) /həːrˌmáfrəˈdɑ́jtəs/ [hɚːrˌmáfrəˈdɑ́ːjtˢʰəs] (Welsh English) /hɛrˌmáfrʌˈdɑ́jtʌs/ [hɘˑɾˌmáfɾɞˈdɑ́jʔɜs] (Scottish English) /hərˌmǽfrəˈdɑ́jtəs/ [hɚˌmǽfɹəˈdɑ́jtˢʰəs] (Standard North American) /her.maˈ.pʰró.diː.tos/ [her.maˈ.pʰró˦.diː.tos] (Ancient Greek) /her.ma.pʰroˈdiː.tus/, [hɛrmäpʰrɔˈd̪iːt̪ʊs̠] (Classical Latin) /er.ma.froˈdi.tus/, [ermäfroˈd̪iːt̪us] (Ecclesiastical Latin)
Latina(Latin)	Hermaphrodítvs
Latina nova(New Latin)	Hermaphrodītus
Equivalents
Roman equivalent	Atlantius

Hermaphroditus was a child of Aphrodite and Hermes.

Legend

Hermaphroditus was born a remarkably handsome boy whom the naiad Salmacis prayed to be bonded to forever. One of the gods, in answer to her prayer, merged their two forms into one and turned them into a hermaphrodite, which is considered to be the origin of the name.

Hermaphroditus had long been a symbol of androgyny or effeminacy, and was depicted in Greco-Roman arts as a female body with male genitals.

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