Aphroditus
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aphroditus or Aphroditos (Greek: ) was a male Aphrodite originating from Amathus on the island of Cyprus and celebrated in Athens in a transvestite rite.Aphroditus was portrayed as having a female shape and clothing like Aphrodite's but also a beard and phallus, and hence, a male name. This deity would have arrived in Athens from Cyprus in the 4th century BC. In the 5th century BC, however, there existed hermae of Aphroditus, or phallic statues with a female…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aphroditus or Aphroditos (Greek: ) was a male Aphrodite originating from Amathus on the island of Cyprus and celebrated in Athens in a transvestite rite.Aphroditus was portrayed as having a female shape and clothing like Aphrodite's but also a beard and phallus, and hence, a male name. This deity would have arrived in Athens from Cyprus in the 4th century BC. In the 5th century BC, however, there existed hermae of Aphroditus, or phallic statues with a female head.According to Macrobius who mentions the goddess in his Saturnalia, Philochorus in his Atthis (referred to by Macrobius) identifies this male-female god with the Moon, and says that at its sacrifices men and women exchanged clothing.