Sirens are found in many Greek stories, particularly in Homer's Odyssey, where they are particularly famous. When the Sirens were given a name of their own, they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Gaia (the Earth in Euripides' Helen 167, Helen in her anguish calls upon "Winged maidens, daughters of the Earth"). There were some named sirens Parthenope, Thelxiepeia, Peisinoe, Aglaopheme, Ligeia and Leucosia. When the soul is in heaven the sirens seek, by harmonic motion, to unite it to the divine life of the celestial host and when in Hades, to conform the soul to eternal infernal regimen but when on earth their only job to "produce generation, of which the sea is emblematic".
The first were under the government of Zeus, the second under that of Poseidon, and the third of Hades. All such locations were surrounded by cliffs and rocks.Īccording to the Greek Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus, Plato said there were three kinds of sirens: the celestial, the generative, and the purificatory/cathartic. In some later, rationalized traditions, the literal geography of the "flowery" island of Anthemoessa, or Anthemusa, is fixed: sometimes on Cape Pelorum and at others in the islands known as the Sirenuse, near Paestum, or in Capreae. Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli. Roman writers linked the Sirens more closely to the sea, as daughters of Phorcys. Although they lured mariners, for the Greeks, the Sirens in their "meadow starred with flowers" were not sea deities.
In Greek mythology, the Siren (Ancient Greek: Σειρήν ( Seirḗn)) was a dangerous creature that lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.
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