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“Deaf as Ulysses to the Sirens Song”: The Story of a Forgotten Topos*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Abstract
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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