https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf By Angelina Tran & Minh Phan Period 4 en-us 2017-12-22 19:27:18 UTC 2017-12-22 19:50:00 UTC hello@padlet.com yttran103 https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217889533 Readers like us or historian, etc. had been told Sirens were half-mermaid-and-human creatures; but that was only a part of the descriptions about Sirens. To add, many thought they were bird-like-human, or other types of creatures because Rome also followed Greek culture. Even though Rome followed most of the parts of Greek culture, the stories of Greek mythology changed when it came to Rome. Therefore, sometimes people thought Sirens were half bird and half human, instead, mermaids. In Greek mythology, Sirens were described as creatures who had a lower mermaid body, but a human upper body. To add, they were also “amazing” singers. In many stories, they were viewed as dangerous creatures by heroes. When sailors sailed past them, they sang with their enchanting voices and musics to lure them and wreck their ships into rocks or coast of an island. When heroes were traveling, they were one of the hardest obstacles that they sailors, or heroes, had to surpass. Many had succeeded but many failed. In the Odyssey, the Odyssues was helped or warned by a god; therefore, he put something in his ears so he couldn’t be lured by them and led his ship out of the danger. 

]]> 2017-12-22 19:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217889533 yttran103 https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217889835 Half-mermaid and half- human ]]> 2017-12-22 19:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217889835 yttran103 https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217890208 2017-12-22 19:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217890208 yttran103 https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217890567 2017-12-22 19:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217890567 yttran103 https://padlet.com/yttran103/lcwcxn7q5ypf/wish/217890796 As said from the descriptions above, Sirens lure men or near by sailors to their death with their voices. In the Odyssey, Odysseus’s ship sailed across a rocky island, the home of the Sirens. As instructed by Circe, a witch-goddess, Odysseus plugs the men’s ears with earwax and binded them against the ship. But due to his curiosity, he wanted to listen to the song and see how dangerous it was. By doing it and without getting lure in, he told his men to tie against the ship’s mast. He wanted to escape due to the song; because he was fighting, he harmed himself.

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