Chapter Seven - Sirens

The Sirens were sweetly singing enchantresses.  They were part woman and part bird.  These beautiful creatures lured sailors to their doom.  They inhabited an island surrounded by dangerous rocks.  The Sirens’ singing would have caused Odysseus to steer his ship into the rocks, but he ordered his men to bind him to the mast, just as a precaution.  They were no match for Orpheus, a minstrel, who distracted his fellow Argonauts with lovely songs so they sailed by the Sirens safely.

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