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The sirens live on an island near Scylla and Charybdis, located in the Strait of Messina. The sirens stay on this island awaiting for passing ships. If a ship does try to cross their territory they will sing beautiful tunes which lure sailors to jump off their ship and swim to their doom. In the Odyssey, the sirens even talk about their frightening power by saying, "No seaman ever sailed his black ship past this spot without listening to the honey-sweet tones that flow from our lips and no one who has listened has not been delighted and gone on his way a wiser man," (The Sirens, Odyssey 12:186-190).

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In the Odyssey, Homer defines the Sirens as mythological half-bird half-maiden creatures that live on dangerous rocks in the sea. In the epic, the two Sirens Gaia and Phorcys try to tempt Odysseus and his crew with their enchanting song attempting to obstruct Odysseus' journey home but they fail as Odysseus, know for his cleverness and quick wits decided to "tie himself to his ships mast so that he could hear the Sirens' beautiful song and not be tempted to land whist the rest of his crew were made immune by blocking their ears with wax."

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The Sirens represent the idea of men's desires as a beautiful maiden on the outside, but their true nature reveals their ravenous and ferocious self that takes advantage of their misleading outer shell. The Sirens bewitch everybody who approaches them. Throughout all the stories that contain them they are shown tempting sailors passing by and leading them to their deaths. Tn the Odyssey also, they have a bad reputation for doing this, even the famous witch Circe says, "There is no homecoming for the man who draws near them unawares...For with their high clear song the Sirens bewitch him, as they sit there in a meadow piled high with the mouldering skeletons of men," (The advice of Circe, Odyssey, 12:39-47). Their songs and appearance embody the idea of temptation since their entrancing song tempts the men to their ultimate demise.

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This video gives a quick explanation of what are sirens and how they behave in the stories containing them.

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The Sirens Of Greek Mythology - (Greek Mythology Explained)

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Cartwright, Mark. "Siren." World History Encyclopedia, 16 April 2015, https://www.worldhistory.org/Siren. Accessed 15 December 2021
"Sirens". GreekMythology.com, 06 Oct. 2021, https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Creatures/Sirens/sirens.html. Accessed 15 December 2021.
"Siren." Britannica, 20 July 1998, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Siren-Greek-mythology. Accessed 15 December 2021

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Sirens have the head of a human woman and the body of a bird. In some representations of the sirens they appear as a mermaid sort of creature but the ancient Greeks show them as bird women. They originally accompanied the Goddess Persephone but after failing to prevent her kidnapping Persephone's mother transformed them into the form we know of today. But in another version of the story, the gods granted them wings to have a greater ability to search for Persephone after her kidnapping; instead of a punishment it is a gift in this version. 