Sirens

Maddie Eyolfson, Laura Winslow, and Rachel Wyman



=﻿Definitions of a Siren -=
 * 1) A very beautiful woman
 * 2) A Greek word that means to attach or to bind
 * 3) A woman-like creature that uses its beautiful voice to lure sailors to their deaths
 * 4) A woman who is typically found seducing and harming men
 * 5) A loud noise typically found on ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars

The Siren is the ultimate symbal of the power women have over men.
=Synonyms of Sirens -=
 * Harpies, Alkonosts, mermaids, naiads, sea nymphs, water sprites, seductresses, sea witches, Ondine, nixes, etc.



=﻿Background of Sirens -= ====﻿Sirens are believed to be daughters of Malpomene, the muse of tragedy, and the sea god Phorcys or the river god Achelous. They are most commonly known as the daughters of Achelous and Malpomene. No one agrees on how Sirens came to be. These are some of the stories:==== In this version, the sirens are half-fish, half-human, instead of half-bird, half-human.
 * The daughters of Achelous were playing with Persephone when she was abducted. They refused to search for her and were punished by being turned into birds with human heads. This is the most well known story.
 * Aphrodite turned her daughters into birds because they wanted to remain virgins.
 * The daughters were present when Persephone was ravished by Hades and bid Zeus for wings to pursuade Hades.
 * The sirens lost their wings when the Muses pulled them out after a challenge. The Muses banished the humiliated Sirens and the Sirens went to the islands near the coast of Southern Italy. Some of the supposed islands they occupy are:
 * Cape Peloris
 * Capri
 * Siren Isles
 * Isle of Anthemusa

Throughout the Greek myths, there were only two cases where the Siren calls were escaped. The first occured when the Argonauts had Orpheus play a tune louder than the Sirens to drown them out, the second was when Odysseus' men pluged their ears with beeswax and Odysseus tied himself to the ship. After the second escape, the Sirens killed themselves out of shame. It is because of this that writers say Sirens are fated to die if anyone escapes their song. Its is also said that when sirens mate with the god Poseidon they give birth to the cyclops:

=**Starbucks**=
 * The Starbucks symbol is, as many know, a mermaid, or a siren. But the actual picture on the cup and store has changed a lot throughout time due to a lot of controversy provoked by the image.**

=**VIDEOS**=
 * Pirates of the Caribbean 4**
 * My Jolly Sailor Bold﻿**
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 * Odysseus and the Sirens (Harpies)﻿**

**HOW TO SPOT SIRENS IN LITERARY WORKS**

 * **Seductresses**
 * **Femme Fatale**
 * **A very beautiful young woman**
 * **Nymphomania - the term comes from the legend of nymphs -**desire to engage in human sexual behavior at a level high enough to be considered clinically significant

**EXAMPLES**
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 * //One Thousand and One Nights// - "[|Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman]"
 * Arabian Nights - "[|The Adventures of Bulukiya]
 * //Sleep of Ondine/Ondine's Curse// -[| Ondine's curse]
 * //The Mermaid and the Minotaur// by Dorothy Dinnerstein


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 * Mermaid & Sailor - David Delamare
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 * __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondine_(mythology) __
 * __ @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren __
 * __ @http://blog.klm.com/the-legendary-varszawa/2246/ __
 * __ @http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Warsaw __
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