Cymothoe, one of the Nereids, known for helping Aeneas retrieve his ships, along with Triton, after Aeolus buffeted his fleet on the orders of Juno
Diana gives Opis magical weapons with which to take revenge on Camilla's killer, the Etruscan Arruns.
There were many large free-standing sculptures, including those of Nereids between each pair of main columns.
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They have generally been called Nereids, though Thurstan Robinson argues that this is imposing a Greek perspective on Lycian sculptures, and that they should rather be seen as eliyãna, Lycian water-nymphs associated with fresh-water sources and referenced on the Letoon trilingual inscription, which was discovered a few kilometres to the south of the site of the Monument.
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Huntington also commissioned a marble figure of The Nereid for Brookgreen Gardens, the sculpture museum he and his wife, sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, founded in South Carolina.
Each of the two main surviving acroteria involves a young man and a young woman, and they are variously interpreted as representing the rape of the daughters of Leukippos by the twins Castor and Pollux, or as the Nereid Thetis being carried off by Peleus, or as exploits of Herakles.