Parthenope

British  

/ pɑːˈθɛnəpɪ /

noun

1. Greek myth a siren, who drowned herself when Odysseus evaded the lure of the sirens' singing. Her body was said to have been cast ashore at what became Naples

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Parthenope

But Parthenope also knows how to gently, and with a teasing smile, push back at anyone’s preconceived notions about who she is, and what she is or isn’t thinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

After Cuma, the Greeks moved down the shore to Naples and called this settlement Parthenope, after the siren who tried to lure Odysseus to the rocks.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2013

Of course every one knows that Parthenope means Naples, the Neapolitans and the Neapolitan Province, a siren of that name having come to final grief somewhere between the Chiatamone and Posilippo.

From Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Do you remember that mediæval story of the building of Parthenope, how it was based, by the Magician Virgilius, on an egg, and how the city shakes when the frail foundation chances to be stirred? 

From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang

Every body is acquainted with it— Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 by Various