Hermaphroditus

• “I've already incorporated a great deal of Ovid's Metamorphoses — — the story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from the fourth book.”

  "To be an actor, you have to be a child."

• “The proper name "Hermaphroditus" refers us back to another tale from The Metamorphoses in which latency proves to be destiny.”

  Shelley's Pod People

• “Already bearing the stitched together names of his famously libidinal parents Hermes and Aphrodite, "Hermaphroditus," at fifteen years old, has no interest in awakening to sexual desire: the plot turns on his refusal of the nymph Salmacis, whose pool”

  Shelley's Pod People

• “Hermaphroditus" (the only time it is named) it spreads its wings and flies her upstream, where she and the poem abandon it (xliii).”

  Shelley's Pod People

• “Such was his extravagant commendation, and, consequently, his hearty approbation of a most unnatural production, "Hermaphroditus," which ultimately received the censure of the author himself, who was ashamed that he had written it, as shown in the following epigram preserved by Cardinal”

  Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century

• “She was also the mother of Hermaphroditus with Mercury (Hermes), Priapus with Dionysus (Bacchus), and Beroe (after whom the city Berytus in Lebanon was named) with Adonis.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “Hermaphroditus, the son of Aphrodite and Hermes, is a hermaphrodite, giving his name to those whose physiology incorporates both a penis and female breasts.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “Salmacis would not be seen of Hermaphroditus, till she had spruced up herself first,”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “He searches into the history of Priapus and Hermaphroditus.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “And yet — like Ovid's Hermaphroditus, whose flaunted unavailability incites the nymph Salmacis, and like the beautiful slumbering figure Shelley admired in the Villa Borghese, [6] the Witch's Image is lovely, "surpassing" the beauty of”

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