Parthenope, in the Greek mythology one of the three Sirens (q.v.), threw herself into the sea because her love for Ulysses was not returned, and was drowned; her body was washed ashore at Naples, which was called Parthenope after her name.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Parthenon * Parthia