Reading Notes: Odyssey: The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis

Odyssey: The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis, translated into English by Tony Kline (2004), is two separate stories of the Odysseus passing by sirens as well as traveling between Scylla and Charybdis. In the Passing the Sirens, you are focused in on a strong, well-built vessel that is nearing the island of Sirens. The storyteller tells us that waves have lulled, making you imagine that something bad might happen soon. The calm before the storm. Then Odysseus begins preparing for the Sirens by making wax earplugs and he gets tied up without any. As they pass by he keeps telling his comrades to let him go to island, but they cant hear him and don't let him free. The island must be miraculous and their voices spectacular. For my retelling of this story I could change the setting and time frame that this is in.

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