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Original image, Louvre, Paris
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Ulysses passes with his companions the island of the sirens
Sirens, Greek Seirenos, in the legend the daughters of Acheloos (or Phorkys), damaging demons, mixed beings of man and bird (mostly with female head), with superhuman knowledge and the gift to change the weather. They beguiled the passing skippers, who had failed and died on the cliffs. Ulysses clogged the ears of his companions with wax on the advice of the magician Kirke, let himself be tied to the mast tree and thus escaped from ruin. Orpheus drowned out her singing with his.
The legend of the sirens found its way into the myths of the peoples in many variations. Just to mention the mermaid Loreley, whose beguiling singing - perhaps even more so with her erotic charm - led Rhine sailors to their doom on the Rhine rock of the same name.
The relief of this scene from the Odyssey is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris. Roman relief from the 2nd century of our time. Probably a tomb relief.
Original size 40.5 cm x 32.5 cm, thus replica with small difference. For hanging.
This product was added to our catalog on Friday, April 18, 2014.