Monster · Character in Homer’s Odyssey
The Sirens
Voices promising all knowledge
Sweet-voiced and knowing; promise everything, and keep a meadow of bones.
Their song offers to tell a man everything that has ever happened on earth, and the meadow below them is heaped with the bones of listeners. Odysseus plugs his crew's ears with wax and has himself lashed to the mast so he can hear it and live.
Bonds
- The Sirens deceives Odysseus — song promises all knowledge
Appears in
- Book XII The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis
Scenes
- Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis — Book XII. Circè describes Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis
- Setting Sail Again — Book XII. Odysseus briefs crew on dangers
- Bound Against the Mast — Book XII. Bound Odysseus strains as crew rows
- Night of Shared Tales — Book XXIII. Penelope, Odysseus share their tales