The Sirens and Ulysses The Sirens and Ulysses The Sirens and Ulysses is a large oil painting on canvas by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1837. It depicts the scene from Homer's "Odyssey" in which Ulysses (Odysseus) resists the bewitching song of the Sirens by having his ship's crew tie him up, while they are ordered to block their own ears to prevent themselves from hearing the song. While traditionally the Sirens had been depicted as human–animal chimeras, Etty portrayed them as naked young women, on an island strewn with decaying corpses. The painting divided opinion at the time of its
Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) to repel them through the use of Scythians to maintain his Greek troops disciplined and stable. Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) The Siege of Theodosia in was the third and final siege by the Bosporan Kingdom under Leukon I against the city of Theodosia, a probable colony of Heraclea Pontica, who had aided the city in two previous sieges. In the first siege, Satyros I, the father of Leukon, besieged the city but lost his life there at the age of 81. After having been tricked by Tynnichus, Leukon retreated back to Panticapaeum. After his defeat, Leukon had to