CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.* Sophocles, Fragments, Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 483. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-674-99532-1. Online version at Harvard University Press. a b "Ms. 100 (2007.16), fol. 14. Sirens. about 1250–1260". Getty Museum . Retrieved 2022-09-10. . "serene" fol. 20v This object is a sarcophagus, or coffin for a deceased person. Why would someone want to decorate their tomb this way? However, in the 17th century, some Jesuit writers began to assert their actual existence, including Cornelius a Lapide, who said of woman, "her glance is that of the fabled basilisk, her voice a siren's voice—with her voice she enchants, with her beauty she deprives of reason—voice and sight alike deal destruction and death." [109] Antonio de Lorea also argued for their existence, and Athanasius Kircher argued that compartments must have been built for them aboard Noah's Ark. [110] Late Modernity (1801–1900) [ edit ]

According to a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses—alluding to the connection of Pieria with the Muses— Pierus, king of Macedon, had nine daughters he named after the nine Muses, believing that their skills were a great match to the Muses. He thus challenged the Muses to a match, resulting in his daughters, the Pierides, being turned into chattering jays (with κίσσα often erroneously translated as ' magpies') for their presumption. [20] Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as in Hesiod, Theogony 371–374, in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes. Powerful, elegant, and mesmerizing, Sirens & Muses reimagines ambition, passion, identity, and the intricate bonds between women. Antonia Angress is a writer to watch.” —Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of The Revisioners Hymenaeus was assigned as Apollo's son by one of the muses, either Calliope, or Clio, or Terpsichore, or Urania. Corybantes were the children of Thalia and Apollo.Originally, sirens were shown as male or female, but the male siren disappeared from art around the fifth century BC. [16] Early siren-mermaids [ edit ] Miniature illustration of a siren enticing sailors who try to resist her, from an English Bestiary, c. 1235 A brilliant study of art, politics, male dominance, female passion, and the commercialized art world in the early 2010s. . . A highly recommended novel of art and heart." — Library Journal (starred review) When Preston concocts an explosive hoax, the fates of all four artists are upended as each is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat New York art world. Now, all must struggle to find new identities in art, in society, and amongst each other. In the process, they have to find either their most authentic terms of life—of success, failure, and joy—or risk losing themselves altogether. Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), attributed to the Danaë Painter, about 460 B.C. Greek, Attic. Terracotta, red-figure, H. 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm), diameter of mouth 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1923 (23.160.80)

CU Classics – Greek Vase Exhibit – Essays – Sirens". www.colorado.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-06-25 . Retrieved 2017-10-20. Classical writers set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousēgetēs ('Apollo Muse-leader'). [19] In one myth, the Muses judged a contest between Apollo and Marsyas. They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus, son of Calliope, and buried them in Leivithra. In a later myth, Thamyris challenged them to a singing contest. They won and punished Thamyris by blinding him and robbing him of his singing ability. Chunko-Dominguez, Betsy (2017). English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up. BRILL. pp.82–84. ISBN 9789004341203.The earliest known records of the Muses come from Boeotia (Boeotian muses). Some ancient authorities regarded the Muses as of Thracian origin. [5] In Thrace, a tradition of three original Muses persisted. [6]