Hamadryad - San Marino, CA - Epic Beings and Creatures on Waymarking.com

The Huntington Art Gallery is part of the Huntington Library.
This sculpture depicts a tree nymph called a "Hamadryad". The artist is Antoine Coysevox and is dated late 19th or early 20th century.

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"A hamadryad ... is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees. They are a particular type of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. Hamadryads are born bonded to a certain tree. Some believe that hamadryads are the actual tree, while normal dryads are simply the entities, or spirits, of the trees. If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For that reason, dryads and the gods punished any mortals who harmed trees."

Time Period: Ancient Approximate Date of Epic Period: 2000 BC Epic Type: Mythical Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art

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