Death. Deadly rocks. Nude men. All stated in Homer’s epic The Odyssey, the Waterhouse painting, and the Attic vase. Similarities can be one of the best things to include in a text and painting; but differences can be some of the worst things. In Homer’s text The Odyssey there are several similarities with the painting by Waterhouse and the Attic Vase. First, the men are in a boat; Odysseus is tied up to the pole by his hands and his feet. The sirens are around the boat singing their deadly song to the crew members. To show true leadership, Odysseus applies beeswax to his crew members ears to save them from hearing the sirens’ song, and going overboard and suffering a painful death. As well as having a vast amount of similarities the