Lorelei
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The Lorelei is a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage S
View from the left bank of the Rhine at Sankt Goar
Aerial image of Katz Castle and the Lorelei
Lorelei in 1900
View of the Rhine as seen from the Lorelei
Siren (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, sirens are female humanlike beings with alluring voices; they appear in a scene in the Odyssey in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives. Roman poets place them on some small island
Lorelei
…the rock. It has been an infamous fluvial disaster site since its first records during the 10th century, with a varied mythos, ranging from dwarfs to a siren trying to explain the high number of shipwrecks and the loud echo inside the passage. The name comes from the old German words lureln, Rhine dialect…
Attic funerary statue of a siren, playing on a tortoiseshell lyre, c. 370 BC
Archaic perfume vase in the shape of a siren, c. 540 BC
Moaning siren statuette from Myrina, first century BC
Miniature illustration of a siren enticing sailors who try to resist her, from an English Bestiary, c. 1235