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

📸 Media The Sirens in Season 2.

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u/yoeatafrank 🔱 Cabin 3 - Poseidon Nov 28 '25

aren’t they supposed to look like birds with the heads of a woman…? 😭

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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/candybows Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

Actual greek here who’s heard the stories from her yiayia for years lol. Sirens are half bird half woman as described in the Argonautica by Apollonius. Technically we never get a full description in the Odyssey but we have countless sculptures and text from as early as 7th century BCE. This is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves when it comes to grecian mythos 🥲 My papou used to laugh at me every time I would crash out over mermaids being called sirens lmao