Concept information
Classical Mythology and Ancient History
metamorphoses ~ classical mythology
metamorphoses ~ sex
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of the fountain-nymph Salmacis, who holds the bathing Hermaphroditus closely embraced, their bodies fuse (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 373)
Preferred term
97K21any man bathing in the pool Salmacis becomes a hermaphrodite
Subject
- ancient history
- bathing
- classical antiquity
- embracing
- hermaphrodite
- Hermaphroditus
- history
- metamorphosis
- mythology
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 04
- pool
- Salmacis
- Salmacis (pool)
- sex
- spring (source)
- transformation
Notation
- 97K21
In other languages
URI
http://iconclass.org/97K21
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