Read the passage from the Odyssey . Dear friends, more than one man, or two, should know those things Circe foresaw for us and shared with me, so let me tell her forecast; then we die with our eyes open, if we are going to die, or know what death we battle if we can. Sirens weaving a haunting song over the sea we are to shun, she said, and their green shore all sweet with clover; yet she urged that I alone should listen to their song. Therefore you are to tie me up, tight as a splint, erect along the mast, lashed to the mast, and if I shout and beg to be untied, take more turns of the rope to muffle me. Who are the major characters in the passage? A. Circe and the Sirens

B. the sailors and friends

C. the sun and sea gods

D. Helios and Perimedes