There this monster awaits his chance to snatch his easy prey from the beach. In mythical terms, however, Kētos was a giant fish who lived in the littoral waters off the coast of Jaffa, now part of modern Tel Aviv. Being swallowed by a sea monster is the maritime version of being swallowed up by the earth. The threat that is transmitted is the idea of being swallowed up by the gaping mouth of a giant fish. In a ship’s geometry the epithet describes the threatening form of the forefoot of the ancient Greek ship. A related word is kētōeis, which means “full of hollows”. The word is made up of two parts, mega, and an adjective form of kētos. In this section we will consider the ships that are described as megakētēs, usually translated as huge, hollow, and gaping.
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