I need the meaning of these words having to do with greek mythology.?

Question

1.“The spell of sirens”-

2.“To dally in a ‘lotus-eaters’ land”-

thanks so much :)

Answer 1

Both of them occur in The Odyssey. The spell of the Sirens were mermaids that sat on rocks and lured sailors in with their singing. Once they were shipwrecked the Sirens ate them. Odysseus plugged his the ears of his men with wax so they couldn't hear, then had his men lash his body to the mast so he wouldn't jump in the water to get to the Sirens (their voices were supposed to be irresistable). Using hand signals he guided his men past the SIrens, and the sailors rowed faster after they saw how monstrous the Sirens looked.

The Land of the Lotus Eaters was one place where Odysseus made landfall on his 10 year journey home from the Trojan War. He and his crew went there, ate the Lotus plants and fell asleep. It was there that Morpheus, the god of sleep, changed the dreams of his sailors from nightmare of the Trojan War to scenes from home. He couldn't change Odysseus' dreams though, and when he woke up and set sail again, Odysseus knew that he was sailing in to a nightmare and none of his men would ever see home again. He sailed away from the land of the lotus eaters even though he knew what was going to happen.

The spell of the sirens means to be drawn to your own destruction. To dally in the land of the lotus eaters means to put off the ineviitable.

Answer 2

The spell of Sirens refers to the creatures the Sirens, which depending on the myth are sea or land greatures that lull men to jump off ships by singing in the beautiful sounds of women's voices--and then they are eaten. The common misconception is that they are actually women, or mermaids, but this is not the mythology that is commonly accepted. It generally refers to anything which attracts us to something dangerous.

The Land of the Lotu-eaters, is found in both Heracles and Odysseus' mythology as a land inhabited by a witch, Circe in most stories, and the lotus flowers they eat make time and care slip away. Heracles was lost from the Argonauts when he went here, and Odysseus was delayed 5 years by stopping by. The reference refers to any situation that drains people's motivation, care, etc.

Answer 3

Phrases, they're phrases
I don't know what the second means but I'm willing to make a stab...
1. the spell of the sirens: the sirens were magical creatures whose song was their spell, they used it to entrance sailors, blah blah blah.
2. to dally in a lotus eaters land: to dally means to loiter or stand around (basically) although i have no idea what a lotus eater would be, although I'd hazard a guess that their land would be swampy.

Answer 4

1. the song of the sirens cause sailors tragedy. odysseus was the only man who heard the sirens' song when he asked his men to tie him so he won't jump overboard as they passed by the sirens hangout.

2. to dally means to stay. in the land of the lotus eaters' you get disillusioned. it was yet another plot by poseidon to keep odysseus from returning home, thus, winning the bet against athena.

Answer 5

The sirens were depicted as women who would beguile men aboard ships with their song. Their songs were so alluring that the men would run their ships aground or into cliffs or rocky crags, causing the men to drown. The phrase "Song of the Sirens" is often used to suggest something that is appealing but to give into this appeal would be dangerous or have grave results.

The lotus eaters refer to a land traveled to by Odysseus. The people of this land ate lotus plants and became lethargic and forgetful. As Odysseus' men began to eat the plants they too became unmotivated and Odysseus, fearful that the men would forget their purpose, lose the will to explore and travel and refuse to obey him, gathered them up, returned to the ship and set sail.

Answer 6

To answer number 2
Greeks did ingest drugs of various sort, but did not believe in letting them rule the person. To do so causes one to lose reality. The lotus eaters were much like opium addicts, and a person does not advance philosophically in that state.

Answer 7

I can answer the 1st one. The sirens were mythical women who lived on an island according to Greek Mythology. They sang a beautiful song, that according to the myths, was so powerful that it filled any sailor who heard it with incredible lust. They would try and land on the island and end up shipwrecked and dead. That is the "spell of the sirens"

Answer 8

Most of these are actually Roman: mercurial - Mercurius - the roman eqivalent for the Greek Hermes, the god of commerce and of thieves Narcissism - from the greek myth about Narcissus who fell in love with his mirror image opulent - from Ops, the Roman goddess of wealth, grain and the harvest protean - from Proteus, a sea god who could change his shape rhadamanthine - from Rhadamanthys, one of the judges of the dead sybilline - roman seer terminal - from the Roman god Terminus, the boundary marker titanic - the Greek titans were a race of giants who nearly defeated the gods volcano - the Roman god Vulcanus, the smith of the gods zephyr - the greek god of the Westwind

Answer 9

Sirens were like mermaids, whose call would cause sailors to put their ships on to rocks and get wrecked.

Lotus (water lily) seed is a mild hallucinogenic.

Answer 10

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