Odysseus filled the ears of the sailors with wax before they tied him to the mast. The sailors couldn't hear the siren's song and Odysseus couldn't move.
He and his men take a very large wooden beam with a pointed end, light the end on fire and stab it into his eye (He's a cyclops). They then escape only to face the wrath of Poseidon for blinding his son.
Sirens were nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song.
They plugged their ears with wax
If you are talking about the Sirens story: because he wanted to protect his men from the Sirens' singing, but he wanted to hear their songs himself.
Filled their ears with candle wax so they wouldn't hear the Sirens' song.
He told his men about the sirens, sharing what Circe had told him. gave them beeswax to plug their ears from their song.So that he could hear their enchanting, tempting song, Odysseus instructed his men to tie him to the mast, and only lash him tighter no matter what he says until they are past the sirens.
the sweet songs of the sirens lead their men to death
Odysseus convinced Circe to turn them back.
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Sirens are a mythical tale of women at sea that seduce men because they are lost at sea and they are desperate. Sirens seduce the men and when they come close enough, they destroy them.
He and his men take a very large wooden beam with a pointed end, light the end on fire and stab it into his eye (He's a cyclops). They then escape only to face the wrath of Poseidon for blinding his son.
The sirens are a danger that Odysseus and his men must pass to return home.
Sirens were a mythic explanation to why boats wreaked and men were lost at sea.
Sirens were nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song.
It was not hard to hear the sirens. He just listened, and could hear their sweet enchanting song. Sirens do not destroy men directly by their song; they sing and if the victim hears the song, they then try to get to the source by swimming and die of drowning or by wrecking their ship.In order to hear the sirens without being led to his doom, Odysseus was tied and bound to the main mast of the ship by his men. He warned his men of the Sirens and had them plug their ears with wax so they could not hear. When Odysseus heard the sirens, he begged his men to let him go, but they refused until he stopped struggling as this indicated the sirens could no longer be heard.
Object: Hearing Loss. Mythical beasts: The sirens song would enchant men, and make them steer their ships into rocks, or have them dive overboard and attempt to swim towards the sirens. Either way, the men would meet drowning deaths.
With their song they lured men to drown and ships to wreck upon cliffs in effort to reach the sirens.