India, May 22 -- In all the excitement about the forthcoming release of Christopher Nolan's film of The Odyssey, one question remains unanswered.

Will the Sirens feature in the movie?

Those of you who paid attention at school when they were explaining the plots of such ancient Greek epics as The Iliad (now best known as an early concept note for the movie Troy) and The Odyssey (about Odysseus's long voyage back home after the Trojan War) will know all about the Sirens.

In Homer's epic, they were beautiful women who sang haunting songs to the ships at sea. The sailors liked the songs so much that they sailed at once to the island of the Sirens where they found themselves trapped and unable to do very much.

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