the Andromeda monster's actual bones were in Rome. forty feet of them.

everybody knows the Perseus & Andromeda picture, chick chained to a rock, hero, sea dragon. fine. what NOBODY tells you is the ancients pinned it to a real spot and there was a real object. the rock was at Joppa — that's Jaffa, the old Phoenician port, now part of Tel Aviv. Pausanias, Strabo, Josep……