Editing Salmacis (section)

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In a description found on the remains of a wall in [[Halicarnassus]], Hermaphroditus' mother [[Aphrodite]] names Salmacis as the nymph who nursed and took care of an infant Hermaphroditus after his parents put him in her care, a very different version than the one presented by [[Ovid]].<ref>Romano, Allen J. “The Invention of Marriage: Hermaphroditus and Salmacis at Halicarnassus and in Ovid.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 2, [The Classical Association, Cambridge University Press], 2009, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20616705 pp. 543–61].</ref>

[[Lucian]] of [[Samosata]] also implies that Hermaphroditus was born like that, rather than becoming later in life against his will, and blames it on the identity of the boy's father [[Hermes]].<ref>[[Lucian]], ''[[Dialogues of the Gods]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lucian-dialogues_gods/1961/pb_LCL431.253.xml Apollo and Dionysus]</ref>