1008NOTSirens_Macfarlane

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ClCv241

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Hom. Od. 12.39-54, 158-200.
Ovid Met. 5.552-63.

Seth Macfarlane. "Episode 420" of Family Guy. TV Series. Fuzzy Door Productions: 1999-.

In this episode, the character Peter Griffin says "Are you kidding? I can be very persuasive. That's how I used to lure wayward sailors to their deaths with my siren song." The scene cuts to an image of Peter as a mermaid (see image) singing the theme-song of The Rockford Files as a ship full of sailors crashes into a cliff.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.