Hermaphroditus, the two-sexed son of Aphrodite and Hermes ( Venus and Mercury ) had long been a symbol of bisexuality or effeminacy, and was portrayed in Greco-Roman art as a female figure with male genitals.

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos () was the child of Aphrodite and Hermes.

Hermaphroditus prayed to Hermes and Aphrodite that anyone else who bathed in the pool would be similarly transformed, and his wish was granted.

" Hermaphroditus, as he has been called, who was born of Hermes and Aphrodite and received a name which is a combination of those of both his parents.

Yingarna, the creator of the Kunwinjku people, is " nominally female " and androgynous like her son Ngalyod.

* Aphroditus, the androgynous aspect of the goddess Aphrodite

Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already replaced himself in the blankets she had wrapped him in, so Maia refused to believe Apollo's claim.

Taking this into consideration, he was thus associated with Amenhotep son of Hapu, who was another deified architect, in the region of Thebes where they were worshipped as " brothers " in temples dedicated to Thot and later in Hermopolis following the syncretist concept of Hermes-Thot, a concept that led to another syncretic belief, that of Hermes Trismegistus and hermeticism.

: Hermes bringing to Paris the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: ' Here is Hermes, who is showing to Paris, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite.

Released by the intercession of his patroness Athena, through the aid of Hermes, he departs, but his raft is destroyed by his divine enemy Poseidon, who is angry because Odysseus blinded his son, Polyphemus.

" In the same place, Cicero mentions a " fourth Mercury ( Hermes ) was the son of the Nile, whose name may not be spoken by the Egyptians.

" The most likely interpretation of this passage is as two variants on the same syncretism of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth ( or sometimes other gods ); the one viewed from the Greek-Arcadian perspective ( the fifth, who went from Greece to Egypt ), the other viewed from the Egyptian perspective ( the fourth, where Hermes turns out " actually " to have been a " son of the Nile ," i. e. a native god ).

Hermes Trismegistus is described in the Corpus Hermeticum in a Euhemerist fashion, as a man who became a god, or as a man who was the son of a god.

Within the occult tradition, Hermes Trismegistus is associated with several wives, and more than one son who took his name, as well as more than one grandson.

Later, Aeëtes gave his kingdom to Bounos, a son of Hermes and Alkidameia, and went to Colchis, a country in western Caucasus.

Cephalus is the son of Hermes and Herse who suffers a tragic ending to his happy marriage with Procris.

According to pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke Cephalus was an Athenian, son of Hermes and Herse.

Pandrosus and Hermes later had a son, Ceryx.

* One of the Argonauts, son of Hermes and Antianeira ( daughter of Menoetius ), brother of Erytus ; participated in the Calydonian Boar Hunt, according to Hyginus and Ovid.

The parentage of Pan is unclear ; in some myths he is the son of Zeus, though generally he is the son of Hermes or Dionysus, with whom his mother is said to be a nymph, sometimes Dryope or, in Nonnus, Dionysiaca ( 14. 92 ), Penelope of Mantineia in Arcadia.

In Greek mythology, Ceryx or Keryx ( English translation: " herald ") was a son of Hermes and either Pandrosus or Agraulus.

According to tradition, he was the son of Hermes and a nymph, despite which Daphnis himself was mortal.

He was also sometimes said to be Hermes favourite or beloved rather than his son.

* Eurytus or Erytus was the son of Hermes and Antianeira or Laothoe, and brother of Echion.

The phallic god Priapus was the son of Hermes in some accounts, and the youthful god of desire Eros of Hermes and Aphrodite.

In Homer, Aphrodite, venturing into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded by Diomedes and returns to her mother, to sink down at her knee and be comforted.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (; Greek:, Aineías, derived from Greek meaning " to praise ") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

After Aeneas ' death, Aphrodite asked Jupiter to make her son immortal.

However, Hera had persuaded Aphrodite to convince her son Eros to make Aeetes's daughter, Medea, fall in love with Jason.

However, the role of a child in Greek art might imply a further meaning for baby satyrs: Eros, the son of Aphrodite, is consistently represented as a child or baby, and Bacchus, the divine sponsor of satyrs, is seen in numerous works as a baby, often in the company of the satyrs.

Aphrodite, who married Hephaistos, nevertheless had an affair with Ares to have Eros ( Love ), Phobos ( Fear ), Deimos ( Cowardice ), and Harmonia ( Harmony ), who would later marry Cadmus to sire Ino ( who with her son, Melicertes would become a sea deity ), Semele ( Mother of Dionysos ), Autonoë ( Mother of Actaeon ), Polydorus, and Agave ( Mother of Pentheus ).

* Phaethon ( son of Eos ), guardian of the temples of Aphrodite

Adonis was killed by a wild boar, said to have been sent vicariously by Artemis, jealous of Adonis ' hunting skills or in retaliation for Aphrodite instigating the death of Hippolytus, a favorite of the huntress goddess ; or by Aphrodite's paramour, Ares, who was jealous of Aphrodite's love for Adonis ; or by Apollo, to punish Aphrodite for blinding his son, Erymanthus.

Apollonius Rhodius represented Eros as a child of Aphrodite ( Argonautica 3. 25 – 6 ) and there is a relevant scholium on that passage too, according to which Sappho made Eros the son of Earth and Heaven, Simonides made him the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and Ibycus made him the son of ...?

The section is lost, but it has been suggested that he made Eros the son of Aphrodite and Hephaestus

Anteros was the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as a playmate, the rationale being that love must be answered if it is to prosper.

Pausanias relates that Rhea and Aphrodite rescued Creusa from being enslaved by the Greeks on account of her being the wife of Aeneas ( who was a son of Aphrodite ).

He was the son of Ares and Aphrodite.

Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ( Στρυμώ promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting too much, even an ageless immortality " ( p. 149 ).</ ref > According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth ( 218-38 ).

Accounts vary significantly as to his genealogy and provide a variety of stories concerning him ; in many sources, however, he is associated with the cult of Aphrodite on Cyprus, and Adonis, a consort of Aphrodite, is mentioned as his son.