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Podcast: Carlos Conversations
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Drinking with a Siren
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:15:55
Publish Date: 2008-11-06 14:14:43
Description: An ancient Greek drinking cup decorated with an image of a siren generates a conversation between Peter Bing, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, and the Museum's Curator of Greek and Roman Art Jasper Gaunt. They discuss The Odyssey, where the sirens first appear, noting that Homer never actually describes what the sirens look like, leaving writers, painters, and even filmmakers free to interpret them as they have wished over the last 2000 years. Margaret Atwood ends the pod cast with a reading of her poem Siren Song.
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