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Odysseus escaped the Sirens by having all his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. He was curious as to what the Sirens sounded like. When he heard their beautiful song, he ordered the sailors to untie him but they ignored him. When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus stopped thrashing about and calmed down, and was released (''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey Odyssey]'' XII, 39). | Odysseus escaped the Sirens by having all his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. He was curious as to what the Sirens sounded like. When he heard their beautiful song, he ordered the sailors to untie him but they ignored him. When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus stopped thrashing about and calmed down, and was released (''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey Odyssey]'' XII, 39). | ||
Jason had been warned by Chiron that [ | Jason had been warned by Chiron that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus Orpheus] would be necessary in his journey. When Orpheus heard their voices, he drew his lyre and played his music more beautifully than they, drowning out their voices. One of the crew, however, the sharp-eared hero Butes, heard the song and leapt into the sea, but he was caught up and carried safely away by the goddess Aphrodite. | ||
It is said that after a ship successfully sailed by the Sirens, they threw themselves into the water to show protest. Varying traditions associate this event with their encounters with Jason or Odysseus, though the incident appears in neither Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]'' nor Apollonios Rhodios's ''Argonautika''. It is also said that Hera, queen of the gods, persuaded the Sirens to enter a singing contest with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse Muse]s. The Muses won the competition and then plucked out all of the Sirens' feathers and made crowns out of them. | It is said that after a ship successfully sailed by the Sirens, they threw themselves into the water to show protest. Varying traditions associate this event with their encounters with Jason or Odysseus, though the incident appears in neither Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]'' nor Apollonios Rhodios's ''Argonautika''. It is also said that Hera, queen of the gods, persuaded the Sirens to enter a singing contest with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse Muse]s. The Muses won the competition and then plucked out all of the Sirens' feathers and made crowns out of them. | ||