4 Works, Contemporary interpretations of Olympian Deities, Thomas Saliot’s Mermaids, with Footnotes #7

Thomas Saliot, France
Naiads

Giclee on Fine Art Paper
8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Private collection

In Greek mythology, the Naiads are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.

They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolis…

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