Sharks in Ancient Greece

Ryan Denson: There's no real direct word ancient Greek or Latin for sharks it kind of gets lost amidst all the sea monster stuff as well but I mean if you really look there are probably some references to sharks and that really got me thinking about a lot of stuff. Ryan Denson: The main figures that I look at are really the trittons and the nierids and we have this very interesting gender dichotomy between those two. It has always fascinated me that there are so many instances of like explicitly half man half fish characters in Greek myth, he says.

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