", Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 141 (trans. and the rocks of the harpy-limbed nightingales [Seirenes (Sirens)]. xii. ", Seneca, Medea 355 ff (trans. 3. 85 ff (trans. 1. A surname of the Sirens, the daughters of Achelous and a muse. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to C3rd A.D.) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 125 (trans. Also in the Epigrams, ‘And that talking is sweeter than Seirenes.’ The names of the Seirenes : Thelxiepeia, Peisinoe, Ligeia; Anthemousa the island they inhabited. 18 - 19 (trans. "As they [the Argonauts] sailed past the Seirenes (Sirens), Orpheus kept the Argonauts in check by singing a song that offset the effect of the sisters' singing. Fairclough) (Roman bucolic C1st B.C.) 10 (trans.

Orpheus indeed followed their advice and met with the god of the Underworld Hades and his wife Persephone. 9. The Mousai won, plucked out the Seirenes' feathers and made crowns for themselves out of them. the town of Naples, where the Seiren (Siren) was worshipped], and rejoiced in the arts of inglorious ease.

Apulian Red Figure Vase Painting C4th B.C. The Sirens Vinyl (A Limited 300) Regular price $100.00. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Seneca, Medea 355 ff (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : There the inhabitants shall build a tomb for the maiden and with libations and sacrifice of oxen shall yearly honour the bird goddess Parthenope.

82 : 892 (trans. You for your part must bind me with galling ropes as I stand upright against the mast-stay, with the rope-ends tied to the mast itself; then I shall stay there immovably. l. c.), or from Aphrodite, because they wished to remain virgins (Eustath. There was a temple of the Sirens near Surrentum, and the tomb of Parthenope was believed to be near Neapolis. [1.1] AKHELOIOS & MELPOMENE (Apollodorus 1.18, 1.63, Lycophron 712, Hyginus Fabulae 141)

Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 47 (from Scholiast on Homer's Odyssey 12. : Plato, Cratylus 403d (trans.

. If a man in ignorance draws too close and catches their music, he will never return to fine wife and little children near him and to see their joy at his homecoming; the high clear tones of the Seirenes will bewitch him. [1.3] THELXIEPEIA, PEISINOE, LIGEIA (Suidas 'Seirenas') Greek Lyric II) (Greek lyric C7th B.C.) : 103.)

Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) He was considered the best musician and poet of all, and he perfected the lyre. An oracle had said that the Seirenes would die if a ship ever made it past them; and indeed they died. 552 ff (trans. Some writers connected the self-destruction of the Sirens with the story of Orpheus and the Argonauts, and others With that of Odysseus (Strab. to C1st A.D.) : Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.)

ad Hom. ", Statius, Silvae 5. "And he [Odysseus] shall slay the triple daughters [Seirenes (Sirens)] of Tethys' son [Akheloos (Achelous)], who imitated the strains of their melodious mother [Melpomene] : self-hurled from the cliff's top they dive with their wings into the Tyrrhenian Sea, where the bitter thread spun by the Moirai (the Fates) shall draw them. [1.2] AKHELOIOS & TERPSIKHORE (Apollonius Rhodius 4.892, Nonnus Dionysiaca 13.313) One played the cithara, the second sang, and the third played the flute, and in this manner they used to persuade passing sailors to remain with them. 4. . ", Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. "A monument of Parthenope, one of the Seirenes (Sirens), is pointed out in Neapolis [Naples in Italy], an in accordance with an oracle a gymnastic contest is celebrated there. Under my mighty hands, and under the beams of the lordly sun-god [Helios] whose father is Hyperion, the wax quickly began to melt, and with it I sealed all my comrades' ears in turn. But them, the Seirenes (Sirens) saw the quick vessel near them and raised their voices in high clear notes : ‘Come hither, renowned Odysseus, hither, you pride and glory of all Akhaia (Achaea)! p. 1709); and others, that there were three, Peisinoë, Aglaope, and Thelxiepeia (Tzetz. 7 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : . Pearse) (Greek mythographer C1st to C2nd A.D.) : Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. "The fleet [of Aeneas] . One of them [Parthenope] washed ashore the tower of Phaleros shall receive, and Glanis wetting the earth with its streams.

Achelo′is. 3:14 PREVIEW Fate. "[Odysseus tells Penelope of his travels :] How he heard the Seirenes (Sirens) singing and came to the Wanderers, to grim Kharybdis (Charybdis) and to Skylla (Scylla).

34. to C1st A.D.) :

3 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) : Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3. And there one day in honour of the first goddess [Parthenope] of the sisterhood shall the ruler of the navy of Popsops [historical Athenian admiral Diotimos] array for his mariners a torch-race, in obedience to an oracle, which one day the people of the Neapolitans shall celebrate. ", Lycophron, Alexandra 648 ff (trans. Undeterred, the women began to attack Orpheus with their bare hands, tearing him apart. "Before long they [the Argonauts] sighted the beautiful island of Anthemoessa, where the clear-voiced Seirenes (Sirens), Akheloios' (Achelous') daughters, used to bewitch with their seductive melodies whatever sailors anchored there. 1 ff : 892 (trans. . 552 ff (trans. Tradition states that his head and lyre were cast into the river Hebrus, where they still gave out mournful music as they flowed to the sea, and landed on the isle of Lesbos. . 18 : 563 (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) files) Regular price $20.00.

The Seirenes’ song grew indistinct; yet even so there was one man, Boutes the noble son of Teleon, who was so enchanted by their sweet voices that before he could be stopped he leapt into the sea from his polished bench.

Still other accounts say that Orpheus killed himself after his failure to rescue Eurydice, or that Zeus struck him with lightning for the crime of revealing the mysteries of the gods. Georg. Despite all his efforts, he would not be admitted into the Underworld a second time, and so Orpheus returned to the land of the living, living in the wild and spurning the love of women, although many burned with desire for him, and it is said that this behaviour is what inspired the men of Thrace to love adolescent boys rather than women. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) : . 563 (trans. "The names of the Seirenes (Sirens) : Thelxiepeia, Peisinoe, Ligeia. . Athenian Black Figure Vase Painting C6th B.C.

It was the god Apollo who taught Orpheus how to play the lyre when he was an adolescent. In front of the island lies that promontory which is opposite the Seirenoussai (Sirenussae) and with them forms the Poseidonian Gulf. But now, half human and half bird in form, they spent their time watching for ships from a height that overlooked their excellent harbour; and many a traveller, reduced by them to skin and bones, had forfeited the happiness of reaching home. p. 85).

3 (trans. 18 - 19 (trans. 12 (trans. His parents were the king of Thrace Oeagrus and the muse Calliope. : Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. Orpheus' sole weapon was his lyre, which he used to raise the spirits of his fellow Argonauts, and to charm fish from the sea as food for their long journey. Met. 23 (trans. "Sailing out past the gulf [Poseidonian Gulf of Leukania in Italy], one comes to Leukosia (Leucosia), an island, from which it is only a short voyage across to the continent. It was their fate to live only so long as mortals who heard their song failed to pass by. ", Lycophron, Alexandra 648 ff (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. 141). Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.) : (Ov. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. [2.1] PARTHENOPE, LEUKOESIA (Strabo 5.4.7 & 6.1.1)

"[In southern Italy :] Opposite to the Bay of Paestanum is [the island of] Leucasia [la Licosa] after the Siren buried there.". Mir. One day, Orpheus was singing in a wooded glade when a group of Thracian women happened upon him. Orpheus vs. the Sirens, an Album by Hermit and the Recluse. The Sirens (wav. Fairclough) (Roman bucolic C1st B.C.) : Orpheus Vs.

1 : Odysseus later sailed by, bound tightly to the mast, while his men blocked their ears with wax. Honor Killed The Samurai.

", Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 5 (summary from Photius, Myriobiblon 190) : ", Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. Orpheus was a musician, poet and prophet in Greek mythology. [you reach the Wandering Rocks and the straight of Skylla (Scylla) and Kharybdis (Charybdis)].’", Homer, Odyssey 12. the narrow meet of the Tyrrhenian Strait and the watching-place fatal to the hybrid monsters [the Kentauroi (Centaurs)] . Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 47 (from Scholiast on Homer's Odyssey 12. Persephone called Eurydice to her and gave her to Orpheus to take out of the Underworld, on the condition that he not look back at his bride until they both stood back under the light of the sun. Campbell, Vol. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) Honor Killed The Samurai Vinyl. 168) (trans.

Meanwhile the trim ship sped swiftly on to the island of the Seirenes, wafted still be the favouring breeze. 21. But now, half human and half bird in form, they spent their time watching for ships from a height that overlooked their excellent harbour; and many a traveller, reduced by them to skin and bones, had forfeited the happiness of reaching home. It is, however, unlikely that any surviving poems were composed by Orpheus himself (if he existed at all), but rather after the Orphic style. the bird goddess Parthenope. But when they had rowed well past the Seirenes--when music and words could be heard no more--my trusty comrades were quick to take out the wax that had sealed their ears, and to rescue and unbind myself. (Strab. From the thighs down they had the shape of birds. Hel. Sereneion melos : : Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. Mozley) (Roman poetry C1st A.D.) : Apuleius, The Golden Ass 5. . ad Hom. But if you yourself are bent on hearing, then give them orders to bind you both hand and foot as you stand upright against the mast-stay, with the rope-ends tied to the mast itself; thus you may hear the two Seirenes' voices and be enraptured. 14d (trans. However, this account is contested, as it is unlikely that Bacchus would drive his own devotees to kill his favourite musician (although it is possible that these women were spurred on to kill Orpheus by the fact that he shunned their sexual advances). Seirenas (trans. Od. ", Lycophron, Alexandra 712 ff (trans. These monsters would sing a seductive song to passing sailors, luring them onto jagged rocks where their ships would be wrecked and the mariners drown.

"Lovely Terpsikhore (Terpsichore), one of the Mousai (Muses), had borne them [Seirenes (Sirens)] to Akheloos (Achelous), and at one time they had been handmaids to Demeter's gallant Daughter [Persephone], before she was married, and sung to her in chorus. Ligeia or Ligea (Ligeia), (Ligeia), i. e. the shrill sounding, occurs as the name of a seiren and of a nymph. 21.

1284; Apollod. ", Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. Details concerning Apollo's early life are sparse, although it appears as though his mother and aunts taught him to sing and play the lyre.



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