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Grave goods unearthed at Canosa show one of these creatures holding a zither, suggesting their role as guardians and psychopomps. Aphrodite saved Butes (“BOO-tays”) from these creatures, who were made into crowns (20[1])following a failed challenge instigated by Hera. (20[1])Demeter transfigured these handmaidens of Persephone, (20[3])who resided on a corpse-laden (20[2])island (20[2])near the Strait (20[1])of Messina (20[1])and its two (20[1])monsters. (20[2])These (20[1])creatures (20[2])(*) drowned themselves (10[2])if a person passed by (10[2])while resisting (10[2])them. (10[7])Orpheus’s music (10[3])drowns (10[1])out these creatures who, in another epic, are heard by a hero tied to a ship’s mast while his men plug their ears with wax. For 10 points, sailors abandoned ship upon hearing the sweet songs of what race of bird-women? ■END■ (10[2])

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