All this reminds us of Shelley's dream of hermaphroditus, or perhaps of Shelley himself, for Chopin was the Shelley of music.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
Tale of Salmacis and hermaphroditus.
"The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II"
Ovid
There is nothing, he insists, lovelier, as there is nothing more famous in later Hellenic art, than the statue of hermaphroditus, yet his translation of a sculptured poem into written verse has given offence!
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall