Biography Siren

Sirens (SeirhneV, Sirenes) – In Greek mythology, sea muse personified deceptive, but the charming sea surface, beneath which hide jagged rocks or shoals. The first mention of SA are in the Odyssey. They live in the west, on the island between the land of Kirk and skill, and here, sitting on a lush coastal meadows, enchanting songs lured sailing by travelers, who, forgetting everything in the world, swam to the magical island and die with the ship (Odiss. XII, 1939 et seq.). Odysseus himself escaped only by treacherous S. Kirkey's warning: he slapped his companions' ears with wax, and told himself tied to the mast. In poslegomerovskih legends (eg in the "Argonautica" of Apollonius of Rhodes). C. portrayed as maids strange beauty with an alluring voice, the sounds of their songs, they lull travelers, and then tearing them to pieces and devour. Argonauts passed only through the death of S., that accompany them Orpheus drowned out the sounds of singing C. his songs. Sirens, it was predicted that they would die when any of the travelers will pass their islands tempted, therefore, when the ship sailed past them, Odyssey (the other – the Argonauts), they threw themselves into the sea and turned into rocks. According to one legend they once competed with the muses in the art of singing, were defeated and it lost feathers, which were to continue to serve as a head ornament muses. In poslegomerovskih tales S. presented in the form of winged maidens, or women with a fish's tail, or virgins avian body and chicken legs. This last attribute, they were at his own request, so they would be easier to search the seas and islands of their friend Persephone, after she searched in vain on earth for other legends, they were turned into birds by the will of Demeter, as a punishment for what they did not prevent the abduction of Persephone, or the will of Aphrodite, because they chose to remain virgins. Later, to determine the location of their island, near Sicily, and named as such, or the Sicilian cape Pelor, or Capri, or Sirenuzskie Island (near the Campanian coast), or the island Anfemuzu. Father C. thought the sea god Fourquies or Aheloy, mother – Sterope, or one of the Muses (Muse, Terpsichore, Calliope), or Gaia. By Homer C. There were two (the names of Homer does not lead), later called the three C, whose names were Peysinoya, Aglaofa and Telksiepeya or Parthenope, league and Levkosiya. In yuzhnoitaliyskom city Surrente (in Campania), there was a temple S.; near Naples (Parthenope) showed the tomb of St. Parthenope.