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“Deaf as Ulysses to the Sirens Song”: The Story of a Forgotten Topos*

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Harry Vredeveld
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Avaunt, Inchantress! - I am deaf as Adders;

Deaf as Ulysses to the Sireni Song,

Who strove in vain to lure him to Destruction.

— Lewis Theobald

Richly suggestive on a variety of levels, Odysseus's encounter with the Sirens in Homer's Odyssey remains one of the best-known episodes in world literature. This article exhumes a once popular variant of that story and tells how wise Ulysses, contrary to the ancient myth, came to stop his own ears against all allurements.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , Autumn 2001 , pp. 846 - 882
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