Hymen (god)
The term hymen was also used for a thin skin or membrane such as that which covers the vaginal opening and was traditionally supposed to be broken by sexual intercourse after a woman's (first) marriage.[17] Maurus Servius Honoratus, in his commentaries on Virgil's Eclogues, mentions that Hesperus, the Evening Star, inhabited Mount Oeta in Thessaly and that there he had loved the young Hymenaeus, son of Apollo with a similar singing voice, which he was said to have lost at the wedding of Dionysus and Ariadne.[3] According to a later romance, Hymen was an Athenian youth of great beauty but low birth who fell in love with the daughter of one of the city's wealthiest women.[19] At least since the Italian Renaissance, Hymen was generally represented in art as a young man wearing a garland of flowers and holding a burning torch in one hand.Hymen appears as a character in the final scene of William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It in which he presides over the rites for four weddings.
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