hermaphroditos

Updated: May 8, 2025

+415+. The most definite androgynous figure is the Greek Hermaphroditos. It was only in Greece that such a compound name arose, and that the composite form became established in art. It is not certain when the Greek form was fixed. But of this Aristophanes we know nothing, and the vague statements of Servius and Macrobius may be neglected as being without significance for the figure in question.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

+416+. The name Hermaphroditos is said to occur for the first time in the fourth or third century B.C. This would indicate a gradual formulation of the idea, the result being the combination of two divine forms into a single form.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV