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"The SIRENS are another temptation for ODYSSEUS, perhaps the most powerful of all, for if he had not been bound to the mast, he would have gone to join the heaps of corpses that surround them. “Come closer, famous Odysseus,” they sing. “We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured / on the spreading plain of Troy” - Bernard Knox, Homer's Odyssey, Book 12 (Victor Ambrus/Robert Fagles/user: Aethon) The Odyssey Art, Odysseus Art, Odysseus And The Sirens, Victor Ambrus, Greek Monsters, Greek Heroes, Dorm Art, The Odyssey, Greek And Roman Mythology

"The SIRENS are another temptation for ODYSSEUS, perhaps the most powerful of all, for if he had not been bound to the mast, he would have gone to join the heaps of corpses that surround them. “Come closer, famous Odysseus,” they sing. “We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured / on the spreading plain of Troy” - Bernard Knox, Homer's Odyssey, Book 12 (Victor Ambrus/Robert Fagles/user: Aethon)

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John William Waterhouse - "Ulysses and the Sirens", 1891 by artimageslibrary, via Flickr Odysseus And The Sirens, Greek Mythological Creatures, Waterhouse Paintings, John Waterhouse, Homer Odyssey, John William Godward, Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, Navi A Vela, Pre Raphaelite Art

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