Many have traced the contemporary conception of a mermaid to the ancient Greek figure of the siren, despite the fact that ...

For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they ...

Sirens is one of those shows that doesn’t hand you anything on a silver platter. It wraps it in mystery, myth, and metaphor, and asks you to feel your way through it.

Different cultures have their own stories about the imaginary underwater creatures, with the oldest dating back to ancient ...

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“I try to fight this lamentable tendency,” he says, but now reads more nonfiction than fiction. “Odyssey” is the fourth in his series on Greek mythology.

Although sirens in Greek mythology are often associated with eternal youth, Dalla Porta shows how age impacts Parthenope’s resolve, as she ironically develops a more adventurous attitude as she ...

In Greek mythology, sirens were believed to be enchantresses, who, with their sinister gift of song, lured sailors to their doom. The idea finds a delicious, comic and dark reincarnation in the ...