Sirens & Muses

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They [the Greeks] imagine that "there were three sirens, part virgins, part birds," with wings and claws. They used their enchanting songs to lure sailors to their island, where they would feed on the unfortunate men. When a sailor hears the Siren’s perfidious song, and bewitched by the melody, he is dragged to a self-chosen fate too soon […] falling into the net of melodious fate, he forgets to steer, quite happy.

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Another, rarer genealogy is that they are daughters of Harmonia (the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares), which contradicts the myth in which they were dancing at the wedding of Harmonia and Cadmus.The Pierides were the daughters of Pierus, king of Emathia [3] in Macedon, by Antiope [4] of Pieria or Euippe [5] of Paionia. There were "those who introduced the mermaid into the Latin Physiologus and the bestiaries thence derived".

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Galt, "A marble fragment at Mount Holyoke College from the Cretan city of Aptera", Art and Archaeology 6 (1920:150).Since these mortals had taken upon themselves to strive with goddesses, the Muses changed them into nine birds. The Muses won the competition and then plucked out all of the sirens' feathers and made crowns out of them. The temptation to stay close to an unfamiliar shore could lead to death by drowning or on a desolate island far from any hope of salvation. The Muses, therefore, were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike (whence the English term music) was just "one of the arts of the Muses". Angress so deftly portrays the splendor and squalor of trying to create something great in the face of rampant capitalism, of love and lust in the face of tooth-and-claw competition.

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And as she wondering stood, Urania, goddess of the Muse, rejoined;—“Look, those but lately worsted in dispute augment the number of unnumbered birds. They can be found in all sorts of works of fantasy, from fairytales written by Hans Christian Anderson and CS Lewis to blockbuster movies like Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean. If this article meant something to you today — if it informed you or made you smile or feel seen, will you consider joining A+ and supporting the people who make this indie queer media site possible? We know of all the sorrows in the wide land […]; we know all things that come to pass on the fruitful earth. Instead of having fish tails, the first sirens had bird features: feathered wings, clawed feet, and sometimes sparrow’s tails.

Originally, the invocation of the Muse was an indication that the speaker was working inside the poetic tradition, according to the established formulas. e., "Memory" personified), figuring as personifications of knowledge and the arts, especially poetry, literature, dance and music. citation needed] The Quaestiones Convivales of Plutarch (46–120 AD) also report three ancient Muses (9.