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- W4366089889 abstract "Ships carry mariners across marvellous seas in ancient Greek myths, but also sailed historical seas long before literacy, carrying story-telling sailors. This contribution examines Mediterranean myths of Greek mermaids alongside historical devotion to Thetis and the Nereids in ancient seaside cults and sanctuaries. Aphrodite, Artemis and Hera have been studied as prominent saviour goddesses of mariners, while Thetis and the Nereids are often seen as mythological rather than the recipients of cult alongside the Olympians. The authors of this contribution are not arguing that Odysseus really received the lifesaver veil of Ino in the sea off Corfu. However, they do connect literary sources with material culture to argue for the historical reality of devotion to ancient mermaids or sea nymphs by some ancient Greek mariners. Evidence ranges from Cape Sepias of Magnesia in Herodotus to Pharsalus’ Thetidion in Euripides. The island of Leukē in the northwest Black Sea was granted to mariners by Thetis in Philostratus’ Heroicus, and devotion to her with her son Achilles is attested epigraphically there and at Ionian ports. Pausanias describes cults around the Peloponnese of Thetis, other sea nymphs and the saving Dioscuri. Mermaids’ cults thus linked the Aegean and the Black Sea along ancient Greek sea routes in myth, literature, epigraphy, topography and the cult practices of historical ancient Greek mariners." @default.
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- W4366089889 title "Saviour Mermaids of the Ancient Mediterranean: Thetis and the Nereids as Patrons of Ancient Greek Mariners" @default.
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