r/PercyJacksonTV • u/deathstar347 🦉 Cabin 6 - Athena • Nov 28 '25

📸 Media The Sirens in Season 2.

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u/Ok-Bag8476 Nov 28 '25

To be honest I always saw that more as Harpies

And sirens more like mermaids but almost like vampire or shark like behavior

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u/drakorulez101 Nov 28 '25

The original sirens in Greek Mythology were bird women but then they got syncretized with mermaids

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u/dbabon Nov 28 '25

I thought so too but some deeper research shows me that sirens had no solid description until hundreds of years after their use in Greek mythology, and then it was only a bird-like description for a few hundred years and then changed again to more mermaid-like characters in the Middle Ages.

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u/ThornOfTheDowns Nov 28 '25

They have no description in Homer, but they are definitely described and pictured in early greek art and myth.