PARTHENOPE, LEUKOESIA (Strabo 5.4.7 & 6.1.1) THELXIEPEIA, PEISINOE, LIGEIA (Suidas 'Seirenas') THELXIEPEIA, PEISINOE, AGLAOPE (Apollodorus E7.18) THELXIOPE-THELXINOE, MOLPE, AGLAOPHONOS (Hesiod Catalogues Frag 47) AKHELOIOS (Pausanias 9.34.3, Ovid Metamorphoses 14.85) AKHELOIOS & TERPSIKHORE (Apollonius Rhodius 4.892, Nonnus Dionysiaca 13.313) AKHELOIOS & MELPOMENE (Apollodorus 1.18, 1.63, Lycophron 712, Hyginus Fabulae 141) In mosaic art they were depicted with just bird legs. The Seirenes were depicted as birds with either the heads or entire upper bodies of women. The Seirenes were so distressed to see a man hear their song and still escape that they threw themselves into the sea and drowned. Odysseus later sailed by, bound tightly to the mast, while his men blocked their ears with wax. The Seirenes were encountered by the Argonauts who passed by unharmed with the help of the poet Orpheus who drowned out their music with song. They eventually gave up and settled on the flowery island of Anthemoessa. They were formerly handmaidens of the goddess Persephone and when she was secretly abducted by Haides, Demeter gave them the bodies of birds to assist in the search. THE SEIRENES (Sirens) were three monstrous sea-nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song. Entwiner, Binder ( seiraô) Siren suicide, Athenian red-figure stamnos C5th B.C., British Museum
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