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HERMAPHRODITUS - HERMES - APHRODITE
"Hermaphroditus und die Nymphe Salmacis", 1580 Bartholomaus Spranger (1546-1611) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
An example of a voyeuristic sensual rendition using an episode from mythology as a pretext. Poets say that Hermaphroditus was the son of Venus (Aphrodite) and Hermes (Mercury). Ovid in his Metamorphoses wrote:
... the waters of the fountain Salmacis
have earned an evil name
the men who take them
become effeminate or merely zero ...
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