Editing Sirenum Scopuli

{{Redirect |Anthemoessa |the moth genus with this name |Anthemoessa (moth){{!}}''Anthemoessa'' (moth)}}

[[File:The_Siren.jpg|thumb|Painting of a siren (''The Siren'' by [[John William Waterhouse]])]]
According to the Roman poets [[Virgil]] (''[[Aeneid]]'', 5.864) and [[Ovid]], the '''Sirenum Scopuli''' were three small rocky islands where the [[Siren (mythology)|sirens]] of [[Greek mythology]] lived and lured sailors to their deaths. "The Sirenum Scopuli are sharp rocks that stand about a stone's throw from the south side of the island" of [[Capri]], was [[Joseph Addison]]'s confident identification.<ref>Addison, ''Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c: in the years 1701, 1702, 1703''.</ref>

Diverse locations were assigned to the isles of the sirens by various authorities. According to [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'', they were between [[Aeaea]] and the rock of [[Scylla]]. Often they have been placed in the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]], off the coast of south-western [[Italy]] near [[Paestum]] or between [[Sorrento]] and Capri: "three small islands on the southwest coast of Campania, now Licosa, St. Pietro and La Galetta",<!--Licosa, St. Pietro and La Galett in original--> reported [[George Richard Crooks]] and Christian Frederik Ingersley on the basis of [[Alexander Jacob Schem]], ''A New Latin-English School-Lexicon'' (Philadelphia), 1861 ''s.v.'' "Siren".

Similarly, '''Anthemoessa''' (or '''Anthemusa''') was the island home of the sirens in other versions of the myth.<ref>For example, [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' fr. 27 and [[Apollonius of Rhodes|Apollonius]], ''Argonautica'' 4.892–4.</ref> Although the name no longer exists, varying accounts attribute Anthemoessa to the island of [[Ischia]] or Capri, in the [[Gulf of Naples]].

Further traditions place the sirens on [[Faro Point|Capo Peloro]] or the [[Sirenuse]] islands, near [[Paestum]].

All locations were described to be surrounded by cliffs and rocks.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sirenum Scopuli}}
[[Category:Locations in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Mythological islands]]
[[Category:Sirens (mythology)]]


{{Greek-myth-stub}}