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GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY
In literature from these cultures one finds the first literary description of the mermaid, and the mermen. Ovidon writes that the mermaids were born from the burning galleys of the Trojans where the timbers turned into flesh and blood and the 'green daughters of the sea'. Posiedon and Neptune were often depicted as half-man and half-fish but the most popular motif of the ancient world that depicts mermen was the representations of the Tritons (the son of the powerful sea-god).
