The Siren

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Siren's Lament", a story based around one writer's perception of sirens. Though most lore in the story does not match up with lore we associate with the wide onlook of sirens, it does contain useful information. The Selection changed America Singer's life in ways she never could have imagined. Since she entered the competition to become the next princess of Illéa, America has struggled with her feelings for her first love, Aspen—and her growing attraction to Prince Maxon. Now she's made her choice...and she's prepared to fight for the future she wants. I think my favorite part was the one day that Kahlen and Akinli had together. It was magical, and reading it reminded me of how I felt in seventh grade. There was a boy, and he liked me, and we were pretty good friends (if anyone actually wants to know, we weren’t a thing). And our moments together felt kind of the way I did when reading that day in Port Clyde – like someone actually knew me and cared. Siegfried de Rachewiltz, De Sirenibus: An Inquiry into Sirens from Homer to Shakespeare, 1987: chs: "Some notes on posthomeric sirens; Christian sirens; Boccaccio's siren and her legacy; The Sirens' mirror; The siren as emblem the emblem as siren; Shakespeare's siren tears; brief survey of siren scholarship; the siren in folklore; bibliography" Holford-Strevens (2006), p.31: There were "those who introduced the mermaid into the Latin Physiologus and the bestiaries thence derived".

The early Christian euhemerist interpretation of mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost from the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636): I think this is one I might actually want to reread. Certainly it deserves a spot in my collection (coveted and limited space at the moment). I don’t think it’s a book I could recommend with confidence because it’s a very specific, atypical YA that doesn’t fit the mold, but it definitely fit the bill as the refresh I needed in the genre. Muratova, Xénia; Poirion, Daniel [in French], eds. (1988). Le bestiaire. Translated by Marie-France Dupuis; George E. J. Powell. Philippe Lebaud. p.33. ISBN 9782865940400.

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The tenth-century Byzantine dictionary Suda stated that sirens ( Greek: Σειρῆνας) [c] had the form of sparrows from their chests up, and below they were women or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces. [15]

Mythology [ edit ] Demeter [ edit ] The Siren of Canosa, statuette exposing psychopomp characteristics, late fourth century BCThe love interest was a good guy. A very believable, kind guy. A nice break from the over abundance of bad boys in YA and NA.