Editing Hymen (god) (section)

===Later story of origin===
According to a later romance, Hymen was an Athenian youth of great beauty but low birth who fell in love with the daughter of one of the city's wealthiest women. Since he could not speak to her or court her because of his social standing, he instead followed her wherever she went.<ref name="befd">Berens, E.M. The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome. New York: Maynard, Merril, & Co., 1880.</ref>

Hymen [[Cross-dressing|disguised himself as a woman]] in order to join one of those processions, a [[Eleusinian Mysteries|religious rite at Eleusis]] in which only women went. The assemblage was captured by pirates, Hymen included. He encouraged the women and plotted strategy with them, and together, they killed their captors. He then agreed with the women to go back to [[Athens]] and win their freedom if he were allowed to marry one of them. He thus succeeded in both the mission and the marriage, and his marriage was so happy that Athenians instituted festivals in his honour, and he came to be associated with marriage.<ref name="befd"/>

According to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], "the Orphics report" that Hymenaeus was among those resurrected by [[Asclepius]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D10%3Asection%3D3 3.10.3].</ref>