Triton,Hippocampi, and other Marine Chimera - Two

#Triton #Hippocampus #hippocampi

These are some of  the earliest renderings of Triton I could find.

Heracles wrestling Triton whose body is a blend of eel and fish.

Triton carrying a boy accompanied by a dolphin

Note again the almost snake like lower body

note again the long body 

now look at this image of Poseidon with a  seahorse

a tritons body with a horse'd forelegs and head 

and this Roman Mosaic of a Sea Horse / Hippocampus 

Next time Tritons become Ichthyocentaurs

Tritons One

Since its #mermay I'm going to alternate #Tritons with #Greekverblists

This is #Heracles fighting the sea god #Triton. There is no recorded story in surviving written literature but the depiction matches written descriptions of Triton, human like from the belly upwards but like a fish or dolphin below.

Triton is also depicted with a lower body more like an eel. Here he is either kidnapping or rescuing a youth. Notice the dolphin swimming besides them.

Again dolphins swim alongside the sea god in this piece.

Next time back to Greek Verbs.