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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 Tritans in the Agrippa

"It's all just so silly and like the sea is so right for that," he says. "The romans really took a shine to that sort of merman form." The tritans are enormous they're like 20 feet tall, according to one account. They seem to be have been very popular for the romans especially we have references to you know roman fountains made out of tritans or shaped like tritans i should say.

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