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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Example Sentences

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

For him I won again The Ausonian realm and reign,     Rome and Parthenope; And all the land was mine From the summits of Apennine     To the shores of either sea.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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