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Parthenope

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Parthenope ♀ Name borne in classical mythology by one of the Sirens, who drowned herself in frustration when Odysseus managed to avoid her lures by having himself tied to the mast and ordering his companions to block their ears with wax. Her name seems to be a derivative of Greek parthenos ‘maiden’ (an epithet of Athena) + ōps ‘face, form’. This name was borne by a sister of Florence Nightingale who was born at Naples, where the body of the Siren is said to have been washed ashore. It is rarely, if ever, used today.

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Parthenope

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Parthenope in Greek mythology, one of the sirens. The name was also that of a Greek colony from Cumae on the site of the modern Naples, and the Parthenopean Republic was the short-lived republic established in Naples by French revolutionary forces in 1799.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Parthenope." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Parthenope.html

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