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FOUNTAIN OF SALMACIS

Salmacis was the Naiad-nymph of a spring of the town of Halikarnassos in Karia. She fell in love with the handsome youth Hermaphroditos and prayed to the gods be united with him forever. Her prayer was taken a little too literally for their forms were merged as one to create the first hermaphrodite. Salmacis’ namesake fountain was believed to make men who bathed in its waters effeminate.

In this series I examin the myths of gender upon which our modern history is formed.

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