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Bookmark or Share- Nymphs – MythopediaIn another myth, the nymph Salmacis became smitten with the youth Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite. She attacked him while he was bathing in a pool and asked the gods to unite them forever. Immediately, Hermaphroditus and Salmacis became a single creature, half-man and half-woman. Nymphs could also be jealous lovers.
- Charites (Graces) - MythopediaGreek. In Greek literature, the Charites appear first in the epics of Homer (eighth century BCE), where their number is ambiguous; the two individual Charites named by Homer, Pasithea and Charis, do not appear in the better known account given by Hesiod (eighth/seventh century BCE), who gives the names of the three Charites as Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia in his Theogony (907–9).
- Mercury – MythopediaMercury was the wily trickster of the Roman pantheon, patron deity of commerce and travel as well as messengers and thieves. Always pushing boundaries, he was as quick to fool the other gods as he was to offer them assistance.
- Hermaphroditus – MythopediaHermaphroditus was a deity who was half-male and half-female. Originally a male child of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphroditus was loved by the nymph Salmacis, who prayed that she and her beloved would become one—a single being with the traits of both sexes.
- Venus – MythopediaVenus was the Roman goddess of love, sex, maternal affection, and erotic passion. Incomparably beautiful, she was the guardian of lovers and prostitutes, and revered as the mother of Aeneas, founder of the Roman people.
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