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Mermaids, as ancient iconic phenomena, have persistently made their way throughout our cultural history; in the guise of marine deities, water nymphs and tritons in the Classical Period, as fish-tailed sirens in the European Middle Ages, as a symbol of female sovereignity and masters of the sea. In the twenty-first century, they are riding the wave of social media, they saturate the world as expansive icons of fashion, entertainment, tourism, ecological crisis, personal empowerment, and gender fluidity.

Maenhout, Elisa