THE SIRENS

SIRENS

• They are either a women or winged creature whose singing puts any unwary sailor into a trance and lure them (on ships) on to rocks, so they could crash.

CHARACTERS MENTIONED

• Odysseus
• Permides
• Helios
• Eurglochus

PLOT

• Odysseus warns his men about the Sirens and what they're about to encounter. To save Odysseus and make it out alive, they tied him (Odysseus) to a mast with beeswax in their ears. That's when the Sirens came around and start singing. The crew kept on rowing, while the Sirens dwindled away. After that, the crew peeled off the beeswax and untied Odysseus.

LITERARY ELEMENTS

• Simile: None found
• Epithet: "My faithful company..." Refers to crew
• Epithet: "...lord of high noon..." refers to Helios

FYI

• "They tied me up, then, plumb amidships, back to the mast, lashed to the mast,..."
• This sentence is about the crew tying Odysseus to the mast.
• Plumb Amidships is the center of a ship.