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ID: 901002561
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002561
Record Type: Character/Person

Hermaphroditos (Greco-Roman deity)

Note: Child of Aphrodite and Hermes, who in Ovid, was the joining of a handsome boy and the female naiad Salmacis.

Names:
Hermaphroditos (Greco-Roman deity) (preferred,English-P,D)
Hermaphroditos (Greco-Roman deity) (Greek (transliterated)-P)
Hermaphroditus (Greco-Roman deity) (Latin-P)
Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Greco-Roman deity) (Greek-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Greek iconography> (P)
........<Greek characters> (G)
............Hermaphroditos (Greco-Roman deity) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
takes the form of .... intersex person
.....(people by gender or sex, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Hermaphroditos (Greco-Roman deity)
................Getty Museum, Remembering Antiquity: Ancient World, Medieval Eyes (2017) accessed 22 October 2023
Hermaphroditus (Greco-Roman deity)
................Getty Museum, Remembering Antiquity: Ancient World, Medieval Eyes (2017)
Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Greco-Roman deity)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphroditus
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Getty Museum, Remembering Antiquity: Ancient World, Medieval Eyes (2017)
................ Source for image https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/antiquity_manuscripts/images/gm_9_14204401_Original_x1024.jpg

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