page_title: Salmacis
hierarchical_section_title: Salmacis
context_page_description: In Greek mythology, Salmacis was an atypical naiad who rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favor of vanity and idleness. Her attempted rape of Hermaphroditus places her as the only nymph rapist in the Greek mythological canon.
  There dwelt a Nymph, not up for hunting or archery:
  unfit for footraces. She the only Naiad not in Diana’s band.
  Often her sisters would say: "Pick up a javelin, or
  bristling quiver, and interrupt your leisure for the chase!"
  But she would not pick up a javelin or arrows,
  nor trade leisure for the chase.
  Instead she would bathe her beautiful limbs and tend to her hair,
  with her waters as a mirror.
  — Ovid, Metamorphoses. Book IV, 306–312.
  In Ovid's Metamorphoses, she becomes one with Hermaphroditus and Hermaphroditus curses the fountain to have the same effect on others.
context_section_description: In Greek mythology, Salmacis (Ancient Greek: Σαλμακίς) was an atypical naiad who rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favor of vanity and idleness. Her attempted rape of Hermaphroditus places her as the only nymph rapist in the Greek mythological canon (though see also Dercetis).
  There dwelt a Nymph, not up for hunting or archery:
  
  unfit for footraces. She the only Naiad not in Diana’s band.
  
  Often her sisters would say: "Pick up a javelin, or
  
  bristling quiver, and interrupt your leisure for the chase!"
  
  But she would not pick up a javelin or arrows,
  
  nor trade leisure for the chase.
  
  Instead she would bathe her beautiful limbs and tend to her hair,
  
  with her waters as a mirror.
  — Ovid, Metamorphoses. Book IV, 306–312.
  In Ovid's Metamorphoses, she becomes one with Hermaphroditus and Hermaphroditus curses the fountain to have the same effect on others.
caption: The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus by François-Joseph Navez (1829)
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