 |
Mermaid
Author: John William Waterhouse
Date: 1901
Location: Royal Academy of Arts,
London |
LISTENING TO A MERMAID SINGING
MYTHOLOGY
Mermaids are
mythological characters whose songs cast the sailors away because with the
songs the sailors threw themselves into the reef. The sailors who were
alive,were killed. When Ulysses was going to leave Circe Island, Circe told him
what happened with the mermaids and gave him some recommendations that Ulysses
used. When Ulysses got closer to the mermaid island, he requested to be
tied to the mast while the sailors should earplug
their ears. He wanted to listen to the
sweet songs of the mermaids following Circe's advice.
 |
Ulysses and the mermaids
Author: John William Waterhouse
Date: 1891
Location: National Gallery of Victoria,
Australia |
There are two
representations of the mermaids which differ from the source, it depends on the
pictorial representation used, these two versions depict the following
representations:
1.Bird body and
human head.
2.Half body
as fish and the other half as a woman.
MEANING
You hear this
expression when you listen to or make a discourse that sounds very good, but in
fact it plays a trick. This expression comes from a mermaid and the first time
it was recorded was in a poem “The Odyssey” by Homer.
OTHER IMAGES
 |
|
Ulysses and the Sirens
Oil on canvas
Author: Herbert James Draper
Date: 1909
Location: Ferens Art Gallery,
United Kingdom |
EXAMPLES
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario