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Odysseus Song Of The Sirens

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Ulysses(also known as Odysseus) hears from Circe that they will be passing Sirens and the beasts called Scylla and Charybdis. She tells Odysseus to plug the ears of his sailors with beeswax, which he does. ”Plug your oarsmen’s ears with beeswax kneaded soft…”(pg. 916) Odysseus does this so none of the oarsmen or his other crew members are tempted to be tempted by the Sirens. Odysseus tells his men that he and he alone should listen to the song of the Sirens. ”Therefore you are to tie me up...if I shout and beg to be untied,take more turns to muffle me.”(pg. 918) This allows Odysseus to hear the Sirens song and hear of them telling him premonitions of a sort. Odysseus and his men pass the Sirens and all survive the experience. The painting

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