The article discusses intersexuality, queer theory and the myth of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis in Ovid's poem "Metamorphoses." It cites Judith Butler's criticism on Ovid's myth which offers an etiological narrative of complex sexual identity that comes from but transcends antiquity. Butler called this as an "idealized gender dimorphism." It examines how the Ovidian myth of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis were used to develop the feminist and queer theory.