Hermaphroditus after being placed in her care.

Later, in the Augustan Age, the Roman erotic poet Ovid wrote an origin myth depicting Hermaphroditus as an endosex young man who transforms into an androgynous figure as a tragic consequence of Salmacis attempting to rape him. Ovid relates that Hermaphroditus was nursed by naiads in the caves of Mount Ida, a sacred mountain in Phrygia (present day Turkey). At the age of fifteen,