Read the following passage from the Odyssey: Square in your ship’s path are Sirens, crying beauty to bewitch men coasting by; woe to the innocent who hears that sound! He will not see his lady nor his children in joy, crowding about him, home from sea; the Sirens will sing his mind away on their sweet meadow lolling. There are bones of dead men rotting in a pile beside them and flayed skins shrivel around the spot. From this passage, the reader is most likely to determine that Circe is
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not to be trusted, and that Sirens are dangerous creatures who lure men to their deaths.