Statue of a nymph (Ino-Leucothea?) - Unknown Date
"Hercules is considered so great and propitious a God among the Greeks, and from them he was introduced among us, and his worship has extended even to the very ocean itself. This is how it was that Bacchus was deified, the offspring of Semele; and from the same illustrious fame we receive Castor and Pollux as Gods, who are reported not only to have helped the Romans to victory in their battles, but to have been the messengers of their success. What shall we say of Ino, the daughter of Cadmus? Is she not called Leucothea by the Greeks, and Matuta by us? Nay, more; is not the whole of heaven (not to dwell on particulars) almost filled with the offspring of men?"
-Cicero, The Tusculan Disputations: Book I, Chapter XII |
| Statue of a nymph (Ino-Leukothea?) Found in the Teatro Museo Ostiense. |
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