Demeter was so angered that the three nymphs failed to intervene in her daughter’s abduction that she cursed them with a monstrous form. Click To TweetĪnother work, however, called the Sirens’ form a curse. Ovid claimed that the Sirens’ wings were a gift from Demeter so the nymphs could help her search the world for her missing daughter. Roman writers gave two different versions of how Demeter created the Sirens after her daughter’s kidnapping. They were with her when she was abducted and forced into marriage by the god of the underworld, Hades. The three nymphs were, at one time, companions of the goddess Persephone. They were said to have the most beautiful singing voices in the world. Some myths said that their mother was a human woman, but more often they were called the daughters of one of the Muses.Ī Muse mother would explain the sisters’ gift for music. He was defeated in this instance, but still became the father of several water nymphs. Their father was Achelous, the god of one of central Greece’s largest rivers.Īchelous was most remembered for contesting with Heracles for the love of the beautiful princess Deianira. The Sirens began their story as a trio of naiads, freshwater nymphs. So where did the Sirens come from, and how did our image of them change so much? Keep reading to find out all about Greece’s femmes fatales of the sea! The Origins of the Sirens That development came later – the Greeks pictured them as women with the bodies of large birds. Nor were the original Greek Sirens mermaids.
They were famous for having such beautiful voices that men would give their lives to listen to them for just a moment. The Sirens of Greek mythology were not known for piercing wails.
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