Mermaids
The Ancients
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Do Mermaids Retain Their Importance for Greek Sailors?
Sailors still devoted to sea nymphs and mermaids in their hope of a safe arrival back ashore. There is also some fascinating mermaid cult figures in the roman imperial era that we know about, not just from palsanius,. But also from satirist lucian and from the second sophistic orator, dio chrysostom.
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