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    The Sirens

    group · 12 works · 13 mentions · 17 anchored passages

    the Sirens · Sirens · a Siren · cunning, knavish, subtle praters · mischievous women · pleasure's song · the fabled Sirens · the harlot · the two Sirens · winged maidens

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    Sirens5 mentions

    De legendis gentilium libris (Greek) · Stromata (Greek) · Helen (Greek) · Letters to Lucilius (Latin) · Andromache (Greek)

    But when they come to wicked men, you must flee such imitation, stopping up your ears no less than they say Odysseus did against the songs of the Sirens.
    de legendis gentilium libris

    Mischievous women“Sirens”1 mention

    Andromache (Greek)

    And I listened to the words of these Sirens, the cunning, knavish, subtle praters, and was filled with silly thoughts.
    andromache

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    Enchanting sea-creatures whose song lures sailors to their deaths on an island littered with the bones of previous victims.

    but they quickened their stroke, and Eurylokhos and Perimedes bound me with still stronger bonds till we had got out of hearing of the Sirens’ voices.
    book 12
    When we had got within earshot of the land, and the ship was going at a good rate, the Sirens saw that we were getting in shore and began with their singing.
    book 12
    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.
    book 12

    De legendis gentilium librisLate Antiquity · Greek

    Mythological creatures whose songs Odysseus resisted, used as an image of corrupting words.

    But when they come to wicked men, you must flee such imitation, stopping up your ears no less than they say Odysseus did against the songs of the Sirens.
    de legendis gentilium libris

    LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

    Mythological creatures whose songs Odysseus resisted, invoked as simile.

    I ran past the city on the Hellespont as no Odysseus ever ran past the songs of the Sirens.
    letter 1

    On Moral EndsHellenistic · Latin

    Mythological singing creatures who lure sailors, reinterpreted by Cicero (via Homer) as tempting through promised knowledge rather than mere pleasure.

    So that to me indeed Homer seems to have seen something of this kind in those things which he feigned about the songs of the Sirens.
    book 5

    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Mythological singing creatures whose deadly song allegorizes the seduction of pleasure and custom, personified as a harlot.

    it is a wicked island, heaped with bones and corpses, and there sings within it a fair little harlot, pleasure, delighting in vulgar music:
    protrepticus

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Mythological singing creatures whose overpowering song is used as an analogy for faith's compelling, almost involuntary persuasion.

    " For the enchantments of the Sirens, displaying a superhuman power, astounded those who came near them, making them ready, almost against their will, for the reception of what was said.
    book 2

    AndromacheClassical · Greek

    The unnamed women Hermione blames for inciting her jealousy and urging her plot against Andromache.

    And I listened to the words of these Sirens, the cunning, knavish, subtle praters, and was filled with silly thoughts.
    andromache
    I can pardon thee in this case, but still women ought to smooth over their sisters’ weaknesses.
    andromache
    never, never,–this truth will I repeat,–should men of sense, who have wives, allow women-folk to visit them in their homes, for they teach them mischief;
    andromache

    HelenClassical · Greek

    Mythical winged maidens, daughters of Earth, invoked by Helen to join in a musical lament for her sorrows.

    Winged maidens, virgin daughters of Earth, the Sirens, may you come to my mourning with Libyan flute or pipe or lyre, tears to match my plaintive woes;
    helen

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    Mythical beings, one stationed on each of the eight revolving rims of the cosmic spindle, whose combined notes create a single harmony.

    And the spindle turned on the knees of Necessity, and up above on each of the rims of the circles a Siren stood, borne around in its revolution and uttering one sound, one note, and from all the eight there was the concord of a single harmony.
    book 10

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    Mythical creatures whose singing lured sailors to destruction

    So I withhold my ears perforce as from the Sirens, and make off as fast as I can, for fear I should go on sitting beside him till old age was upon me.
    symposium

    Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

    Mythological creatures whose song lured sailors, associated with Ulysses' famous countermeasure.

    But why need I be tortured any longer, when Ulysses found so easy a remedy for his comrades even against the Sirens?
    letter 56

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Mythical singing creatures who, according to Homer as retold by Socrates, bewitched Odysseus with a song of praise; used by Socrates as an example that a 'spell' (persuasive speech) succeeds only when it is fitted to what the particular hearer craves.

    Then did the Sirens chant in this strain for other folk too, Socrates, so as to keep those who were under the spell from leaving them?
    book 2
    You mean, I take it, that the spell must be fitted to the listener, so that he may not take the praise for mockery.
    book 2
    for to praise one for his beauty, his stature and his strength who is conscious that he is short, ugly and puny, is the way to repel him and make him dislike you more.
    book 2