Sea Siren

Seas Siren is the latest glamorous addition to the world-famous island. This luxury compound comprises a main house and cottage both of which have the most magnificent panoramic views of the ocean.

Sea Siren has a contemporary feel with imported Italian stone floors and wall to wall windows and wrap around terraces complimented with white wooden flooring upstairs.

A private swimming pool with a spacious cabana for al fresco dining completes the property. The immaculate interiors are beautifully decorated with iconic mid-century furniture featuring designers such as Karl Springer, Curtis Jere and Vladimir Kagan showcased alongside vintage rattan pieces.

The main house has four bedrooms and three bathrooms while the cottage has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, sleeping a total of 12 guests.

Both the house and the cottage, which sit directly on the ocean, enjoy unparalleled privacy and are surrounded by lush tropical landscaping.

The houses each have fully equipped kitchens with new appliances and in-door, out-door living areas which are ideal for entertaining.

The sleek marble bathrooms with glass enclosed showers feature lighting by Kelly Wearstler and brass bathroom fixtures by Restoration Hardware.

Once he hears to his heart's content, sails on, a wiser man. We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured on the spreading plain of Troy when the gods willed it so— all that comes to pass on the fertile earth, we know it all!

The end of that song is death. It has been suggested that, with their feathers stolen, their divine nature kept them alive, but unable to provide food for their visitors, who starved to death by refusing to leave.

By the fourth century, when pagan beliefs were overtaken by Christianity , the belief in literal sirens was discouraged. The early Christian euhemerist interpretation of mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost from Isidore's Etymologiae :.

They [the Greeks] imagine that "there were three Sirens, part virgins, part birds," with wings and claws.

They drew sailors, decoyed by song, to shipwreck. According to the truth, however, they were prostitutes who led travelers down to poverty and were said to impose shipwreck on them.

They are said to have stayed in the waves because a wave created Venus. By the time of the Renaissance , female court musicians known as courtesans filled the role of an unmarried companion, and musical performances by unmarried women could be seen as immoral.

Seen as a creature who could control a man's reason, female singers became associated with the mythological figure of the siren, who usually took a half-human, half-animal form somewhere on the cusp between nature and culture.

Sirens continued to be used as a symbol for the dangerous temptation embodied by women regularly throughout Christian art of the medieval era; however, in the 17th century, some Jesuit writers began to assert their actual existence, including Cornelius a Lapide , who said of woman, "her glance is that of the fabled basilisk , her voice a siren's voice—with her voice she enchants, with her beauty she deprives of reason—voice and sight alike deal destruction and death.

Charles Burney expounded c. Hence it is probable, that in ancient times there may have been excellent singers, but of corrupt morals, on the coast of Sicily, who by seducing voyagers, gave rise to this fable.

The etymology of Bochart , who deduces the name from a Phoenician term denoting a songstress, favors the explanation given of the fable by Damm.

The ballad is also conserved in a Swedish version. A modern literary appropriation of the myth is to be seen in Clemens Brentano 's Lore Lay ballad, published in his novel Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter In the folklore of some modern cultures, the concept of the siren has been assimilated to that of the mermaid.

Siren Lake in Antarctica is named after the mythological creature. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the mythological creatures.

For other uses, see Siren. For other uses, see Siren's Song disambiguation. Attic funerary statue of a Siren, playing on a tortoiseshell lyre , c.

Cobham Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. London: Odham Press Limited. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek , Brill, , p.

Archived from the original on Retrieved The Ashgate research companion to monsters and the monstrous. London: Routledge. Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were.

New York: Viking Penguin Inc. Every bedroom has thread count linens from Serena and Lily for the perfect night sleep. The sleek marble bathrooms with glass enclosed showers feature lighting by Kelly Wearstler and brass fixtures from Restration Hardware.

The spectacular master bathroom has a freestanding bath tub overlooking the ocean. Sea Siren is perfect retreat providing laid back luxury for the discerning traveller.

This exquisite home allows guests to explore and enjoy all that Harbour Island has to offer including world class bone fishing, diving, boating and fabulous restaurants.

And of course and most importantly the beautiful Pink Sand Beach which is regularly voted amongst the worlds best by many leading travel sites and magazines.