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In Greek mythology, the Sirens or Seirenes ( Greek Σειρῆνας) were sea nymphs who lived on an island called Sirenum Scopuli which was surrounded by cliffs and rocks. Approaching sailors were drawn to them by their enchanting singing, causing them to sail on the cliffs and drown. They were considered the daughters of Achelous (by Terpsichore) or Phorcys ( Virgil. V. 846; Ovid XIV, 88). Their individual names are variously reported as Aglaope , Leucosia , Parthenope, Pisinoe , and Thelxiepia .
According to some versions, they were playmates of a young PersephoneIn Greek mythology, Persephone ("per-SE-fo-neh") was the queen of the Underworld, the Kore or maiden, daughter of Demeter. Persephone ("she who destroys the light") is her name in the Ionic Greek of epic literature. In other dialects she was known under v and were changed into the monsterThis article is about monsters as a kind of legendary creature. For other uses, see Monster (disambiguation). Monster (lat. monstrum) is a term for any number of legendary creatures that frequently appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction. The words of lore by DemeterDemeter (or Demetra (DEH-MEH-ter) ("goddess mother" or " barley mother") is the Greek goddess of agriculture, the pure nourisher of youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. She is for not interfering when Persephone was abducted ( Ovid V, 551).
The phrase "Siren song" refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that, if heeded, will lead to a bad result.
In early art, the Sirens were represented as birds with the heads, and sometimes the breasts, of women. Later, they were represented as female figures with the legs of birds, with or without wings. The 10th century encyclopedia SudaSuda (Σουδα or alternatively Suidas is the name of a massive medieval lexicon, not an author as was formerly supposed. The derivation is from Latin, meaning "fortress" or "stronghold". It is an encyclopaedia with 30,000 e [1] says that from their chests up Sirens had the form of sparrows, below they were women, or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces. Birds were chosen because of their characteristic beautiful voice. However, later in history Sirens were sometimes also depicted as beautiful women (whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive), or even as mermaidA mermaid is a legendary creature with a female human head and torso (if it's male, it's called a merman) and the tail of a fish, which inhabits the water. Some sailors claim to have seen mermaids; what they actually saw are probably manatees. A freshwates (half woman, half fish). The fact that in some languages (such as French) the word for mermaid is Siren adds to this confusion.
It is said that after a ship successfully sailed by the Sirens, they drowned themselves for their failure. Traditions associate this ship with both Jason and Odysseus.