Conversations: It’s Better Down Where It’s Wetter, Deities of The Sea w/ Dr. Ryan Denson
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Mermaid Technique in Greco-Roman Literature
The fact that it's made out specifically a wood statue seems odd to me as well. I can basically count on one hand the number of identifiable references to mermaids in Greco-Roman literature. The nairids are always meant to be figures of divine beauty and things like that so if you go back to the Andromeda myth, Poseidon sent a kittis to attack Andromeda because her mother Cassiopeia claimed she was more beautiful than the nairids.
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