For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

When he heard the song of the sirens, Odysseus begged to be let go. But his crew, who couldn’t hear, only tied him tighter, and they safely passed the island. 12. Scylla and Charybdis.

The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson, $27.16, Amazon. To begin with, the sirens of Homer's Odyssey are not described as mermaid-like in any way.Most Ancient Greek art depicts sirens as ...

It is said in Homer's Odyssey that Odysseus encountered a variety of extraordinary obstacles on his journey home, including the Lotus-Eaters, the Cyclops Polyphemus, the sorcerer Circe, the sirens ...

In Book 12 of Homer's Odyssey, the hero Odysseus escaped the Sirens' call with the help of the sorceress Circe, who advised him to fill his crew's ears with wax so that they could not hear the Sirens; ...

Sirens emerge through a thick layer of fog, floating across the stage in bridal dresses and veils. The sirens bind and blind Odysseus’ crew as they beg for forgiveness. As the sirens drag them off to ...

Artifacts and inscriptions in Ithaca’s Exogi village confirm the location of a centuries-old hero-cult site dedicated to Odysseus, Homer’s legendary hero.