Amphitrady and Thalassa in the Odyssey

There are some incredible mosaics of either one or both of them where they're depicted as like this kind of like just this sort of half of a head emerging from the sea. The name amphitrady when it's used in the Odyssey is not referring to an anthropomorphic goddess as much as it is just a personification of the sea. And then you bring up Thalassa we might have in a way the opposite going there where the name ThalassA just means you know sea and Greek so it's their word for sea but maybe that's eventually also becoming a sort of or not the opposite too.

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