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The good ship glides across a calm grey sea toward an island covered in golden meadows. The crew is eager to land, but Odysseus knows better. He tells them: That is the Island of the Sirens. Circe warned me to steer clear of it, for the Sirens are beautiful but deadly.
First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song.
But when we were as far distant as a man can make himself heard when he shouts, driving swiftly on our way, the Sirens failed not to note the swift ship as it drew near, and they raised their clear-toned song: “‘Come hither, as thou farest, renowned Odysseus, great glory of the Achaeans; [185] stay thy ship that thou mayest listen to the ...
A summary of Books 12–14 in Homer's The Odyssey. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Odyssey and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Odysseus, you will notice the other cliff is lower, only a bow-shot away, and a great fig-tree with dense leaves grows there. Under it divine Charybdis swallows the black waters. Three times a day, she spews them out, and three times darkly sucks them back again.
Meanwhile the well-built ship speedily came to the isle of the two Sirens, for a fair and gentle wind bore her on. Then presently the wind ceased and there was a windless calm, and a god lulled the waves to sleep.
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In the twelfth book of the Odyssey, as Odysseus (Ulysses) is leaving Kirkê's island, Kirkê informs Odysseus of the dangers of the sea that he will encounter on his way home, specifically warning him of the Sirens.
