#my current working explanation is that the composition of the odyssey dates to when the dual was falling/recently fallen out of use

[finelythreadedsky]

hit me with your best explanation for why the homeric sirens are a pair instead of a trio the way female collectives in greek myth/literature usually are (the fates, the graces, the graeae, the horae, the gorgons, the muses who are a trio of trios)