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The sirens, 1929 (litho)

The sirens, 1929 (litho)
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The sirens, 1929 (litho)
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Wyeth, Newell Convers (1882-1945) / American
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Location
Private Collection
Medium
lithograph
Date
1929 AD (C20th AD)
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Published in The Odyssey of Homer by George Herbert Palmer in 1929; The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. Scholars believe it was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia; Odysseus was curious as to what the Sirens sang to him, and so, on the advice of Circe, he had all of his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. He ordered his men to leave him tied tightly to the mast, no matter how much he would beg. When he heard their beautiful song, he ordered the sailors to untie him but they bound him tighter. When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus demonstrated with his frowns to be released;

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