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IMPORTANT ROMAN MARBLE RECLINING OKEANOS. THE WORLD-OCEAN Holding a rudder, with ketos (sea monster). The ancient Romans and Greeks believed this deity to be the embodiment of an enormous river encircling the world. He was the ocean-stream at the Equator on which floated the habitable hemisphere (oikoumene). In Greek mythology, he was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaia. Cf. E.M. Koppel, Roemischen Skulpturen von Tarraco, no. 84. Keto, a daughter of Gaia and Pontus, was a hideous monster, the personification of the dangers of the sea, unknown terrors and bizarre creatures. Eventually, the word "keto" became simple shorthand for any sea monster. The family of whales, the cetaceans, derive their name from her. Ex J.K. Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia, acquired from Royal-Athena Galleries in 1982. 2nd Century AD H. 17 3/4 in. (45 cm.); L. 35 in. (89 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2009, no. 11 KJ0807CM P.O.R. FULL-SCREEN FLASH SLIDESHOW Sales |
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