Last a Lifetime

Genre/Style: Soft Rock, Wilson Phillips

Touchstones: Wilson Phillips, “Hold On,” “Release Me”; Madonna, “Cherish”

Themes:

Myth: The Sirens

Notable Telling: Homer, Odyssey 12.36-72, 12.153-200

Read Circe's description of the Sirens to Odysseus at the Perseus Project (ed. Murray, 1919)

Read Odysseus' confrontation with the Sirens at the Perseus Project (ed. Murray, 1919)