Editing Siren (mythology) (section)

=== List of sirens ===
Their number is variously reported as from two to eight.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Page |first1=Michael |last2=Ingpen |first2=Robert |title=[[Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were]] |date=1987 |publisher=Viking Penguin Inc |location=New York |isbn=0-670-81607-8 |page=211 }}</ref> In the ''[[Odyssey]]'', Homer says nothing of their origin or names, but gives the number of the sirens as two.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' 12.52</ref> Later writers mention both their names and number: some state that there were three, [[Pisinoe (mythology)|Peisinoe]], [[Aglaope (mythology)|Aglaope]] and [[Thelxiepeia (mythology)|Thelxiepeia]]<ref name=":0">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [[Epitome]] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0548,002:e:7:18 7.18]; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 7l2</ref> or [[Aglaonoe]], [[Aglaope (mythology)|Aglaopheme]] and Thelxiepeia;<ref>Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' 6.40</ref> [[Parthenope (Siren)|Parthenope]], [[Ligeia (mythology)|Ligeia]], and [[Leucosia (mythology)|Leucosia]];<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]], l.c. cit.; [[Servius (grammarian)|Servius]] on [[Virgil]], ''[[Georgics]]'' 4.562; [[Strabo]], 5.246, 252; Lycophron, 720–726; Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' 1.14, line 337 & 6.40</ref> [[Apollonius of Rhodes|Apollonius]] followed [[Hesiod]] gives their names as [[Thelxinoë|Thelxinoe]], [[Molpe]], and [[Aglaope (mythology)|Aglaophonos]];'''<ref>Scholia on Apollonius, 4.892 = [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women|Ehoiai]]'' fr. 47</ref>''' the ''[[Suda]]'' gives their names as Thelxiepeia, Peisinoe, and Ligeia;<ref>''Suda'', s.v. ''Seirenas''</ref> [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] gives the number of the sirens as four: Teles, [[Raidne]], Molpe, and [[Thelxiope (mythology)|Thelxiope]];<ref>Apollodorus, [[Epitome]] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0548,002:e:7:18 7.18]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' Preface p. 30, ed. Bunte</ref> [[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] states that they were two, Aglaopheme and Thelxiepeia;<ref name=":2">Eustathius on [[Homer]] 1709</ref> an ancient [[vase painting]] attests the two names as [[Himerope]] and Thelxiepeia.

Their names are variously rendered in the later sources as Thelxiepeia/Thelxiope/Thelxinoe, Molpe, Himerope, Aglaophonos/Aglaope/Aglaopheme, Pisinoe/Peisinoë/[[Pisinoe|Peisithoe]], Parthenope, Ligeia, Leucosia, Raidne, and Teles.<ref>Linda Phyllis Austern, Inna Naroditskaya, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5IBSGG9YegwC&dq=three+sirens+mythology&pg=PT27 ''Music of the Sirens''], Indiana University Press, 2006, p.18</ref><ref>[[William Hansen (classicist)|William Hansen]], William F. Hansen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=a-NmaO-kM2UC&dq=three+sirens+mythology&pg=PA307 ''Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans''], Oxford University Press, 2005, p.307</ref><ref>[[Ken Dowden]], Niall Livingstone, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_XsN0O_BQ0cC&dq=three+sirens+mythology&pg=PA353 ''A Companion to Greek Mythology''], Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, p.353</ref><ref>Mike Dixon-Kennedy, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2U7okUE3PIcC&dq=three+sirens+mythology&pg=PA281 ''Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology''], ABC-Clio, 1998, p.281</ref>
*'''Molpe''' ({{lang|grc|Μολπή}})
*'''Thelxiepeia''' ({{lang|grc|Θελξιέπεια}}) or Thelxiope ({{lang|grc|Θελξιόπη}}) "eye pleasing")
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|+<big>Comparative table of sirens' names, number and parentage</big>
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| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Homer}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Epimenides}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Hesiod}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Sophocles}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|(Sch. on) Apollonius}}
| colspan="2" {{vert header|Lycophron}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Strabo}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Apollodorus}}
| colspan="2" {{vert header|Hyginus}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Servius}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Eustathius}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|''Suda''}}
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" {{vert header|Tzetzes}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Vase painting}}
| rowspan="2" {{vert header|Euripides}}
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| {{vert header|''Alex.''}}
| {{vert header|Tzet.}}
| {{vert header|''Brunte''}}
| {{vert header|''Grant''}}
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