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Mar 22, 2021 · The Sirens are most well-known from two famous Greek stories that took place on the sea. The sailors in both the Argonautica and the Odyssey passed by the alluring monsters. The Argonautica was written at a later date but took place earlier in history than the Odyssey.
Attic funerary statue of a siren, playing on a tortoiseshell lyre, c. 370 BC. In Greek mythology, sirens (Ancient Greek: singular: Σειρήν, Seirḗn; plural: Σειρῆνες, Seirênes) are female humanlike beings with alluring voices; they appear in a scene in the Odyssey in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives. [1]
Siren, in Greek mythology, a creature half bird and half woman who lures sailors to destruction by the sweetness of her song. In Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus escapes the danger of the Sirens’ song by stopping the ears of his crew with wax and having himself tied to the mast.
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The Siren: Directed by Perry Blackshear. With Margaret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel. A man searches the lake for the monster that murdered his husband, while that monster falls in love with an unsuspecting visitor.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Perry Blackshear
- 2019-04-11
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/DARKSKY_YTDirected by Perry BlackshearStarring Margaret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews, Evan DumouchelTHE SIREN is an enthralling, sedu...
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Dec 9, 2020 · Much as Scylla and Charybdis are thought to be mythical explanations for real, natural geographical features (sharp rocks and a vortex or whirlpool off the coast of Sicily), so the island of the Sirens was believed to have a surprisingly specific location: namely, off the southern coast, near the Sorrento peninsula.
Learn about the Sirens, half-bird, half-woman creatures who sing irresistibly to sailors and cause their deaths. Discover their origin, appearance, fate, and role in Homer's Odyssey and other myths.
