An edition of Sirena (1998)

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An edition of Sirena (1998)

Sirena

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The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict between love and honor when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.

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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Language
English
Pages
210

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Subjects

Mermaids, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Greek, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Mermaids, fiction, Mediterranean region, fiction

Places

Aegean Sea Region

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Cover of: Sirena
Sirena
March 2001, Rebound by Sagebrush
School & Library Binding in English
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Sirena
November 2000, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Unknown Binding
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Sirena
November 1, 2000, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Sirena
1998, Scholastic Press
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.N15 Si 1998, PZ7.N15Si 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
210 p. ;
Number of pages
210

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL700131M
ISBN 10
0590383884
LCCN
97048391
Library Thing
87370
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1291905

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Work Description

Offered immortality if they can win a man's love, Sirena's mermaid sisters use their silvery voices to lure sailors to them even though it will cause the sailors certain death. Sirena, however, exiles herself from this grim mating game and winds up on the island of Lemnos. There she meets the Greek warrior Philoctetes (the subject of a famous play by Sophocles). True to the legend, this Philoctetes has been abandoned by his crew mates because of a snake bite, but instead of spending the next 10 years letting his wounds fester, per the Sophoclean model, this hero falls in love with an equally adoring Sirena. She becomes immortal, a gift that she does not want in light of her lover's inability to share it, and then she must yield him up when fate calls upon him to reenter the Trojan War

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