page_title: Siren (mythology)
section_title: List of Sirens
hierarchical_section_title: Siren (mythology) / List of Sirens
caption_attribution_description: English: Statuette of a Siren, represented with legs, wings and a bird's tail, carrying a zither, and rising her right arm over her head (a typical moaning sign). It had a funerary and psychopomp condition. Español: Estatuilla de una sirena, representada con patas, alas y cola de ave, portando una cítara, y elevando el brazo derecho sobre la cabeza, en un típico gesto de lamentación. Tenía un carácter funerario y de sicopompo.
context_page_description: In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli. In some later, rationalized traditions, the literal geography of the "flowery" island of Anthemoessa, or Anthemusa, is fixed: sometimes on Cape Pelorum and at others in the islands known as the Sirenuse, near Paestum, or in Capreae. All such locations were surrounded by cliffs and rocks.
  According to the Greek Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus, Plato said there were three kinds of Sirens: the celestial, the generative, and the purificatory / cathartic. The first were under the government of Zeus, the second under that of Poseidon, and the third of Hades. When the soul is in heaven the Sirens seek, by harmonic motion, to unite it to the divine life of the celestial host; and when in Hades, to conform the soul to eternal infernal regimen; but when on earth their only job to "produce generation, of which the sea is emblematic".
context_section_description: Their number is variously reported as from two to eight. In the Odyssey, Homer says nothing of their origin or names, but gives the number of the Sirens as two. Later writers mention both their names and number: some state that there were three, Peisinoe, Aglaope and Thelxiepeia or Parthenope, Ligeia, and Leucosia; Apollonius followed Hesiod gives their names as Thelxinoe, Molpe, and Aglaophonos; Suidas gives their names as Thelxiepeia, Peisinoe, and Ligeia; Hyginus gives the number of the Sirens as four: Teles, Raidne, Molpe, and Thelxiope; Eustathius states that they were two, Aglaopheme and Thelxiepeia; an ancient vase painting attests the two names as Himerope and Thelxiepeia. Their individual names are variously rendered in the later sources as Thelxiepeia/Thelxiope/Thelxinoe, Molpe, Himerope, Aglaophonos/Aglaope/Aglaopheme, Pisinoe/Peisinoë/Peisithoe, Parthenope, Ligeia, Leucosia, Raidne, and Teles.
  Aglaopheme (Αγλαοφήμη), Aglaophonos (Αγλαόφωνος), or Aglaope (Αγλαόπη), all to be translated as "with lambent voice"), attested as a daughter of Achelous and Melpomene.
  Leucosia (Λευκωσία): Her name was given to the island opposite to the Sirens' cape. Her body was found on the shore of Poseidonia.
  Ligeia (Λιγεία): She was found ashore of Terina in Bruttium (modern Calabria).
  Molpe (Μολπή), another daughter of Achelous and Melpomene.
  Parthenope (Παρθενόπη): Her tomb was presented in Naples and called "constraction of sirens".
  Peisinoe (Πεισινόη) or Peisithoe (Πεισιθόη), daughter of Achelous and Melpomene.
  Thelxiepeia (Θελξιέπεια) or Thelxiope (Θελξιόπη) "eye pleasing"), daughter of Achelous and Melpomene.
caption: The Siren of Canosa, statuette exposing psychopomp characteristics, late fourth century BC
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