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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 Mysterious Origins of the Ancient Greeks

Proteus and nairus are both really interesting because they're like shapeshifters. Both of them have stories where like a hero I know Heracles has to wrestle one of them but I feel like somebody else also wrestles one of them. It just suggests something about how the ancient Greeks saw the sea which you and I talked a lot about in our last episode.

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