Vol. 31 No. 3 (2005): XXXI - 2005, fascicolo 3
Articoli

The Sirens at mid-day

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  • Malcolm Davies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14601/prometheus-14357

Published 2014-04-14

Keywords

  • Odysseus,
  • Sirens,
  • myth and time,
  • midday
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Abstract

When Odysseus comes near the island of the Sirens, the wind falls and is succeeded by a calm (Od. 12.167-169): this implies that the time is midday, since the Sirens were associated with this particular hour, as paralleled by other traditional tales.
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