I am Parthenope. Siren, voice, shore. My song carried across the water before the ships did.
They say when Odysseus passed without turning to my song, I gave myself to the sea — and the sea brought me to shore. A city rose where I landed. They called it Neapolis. The new city. Naples.
Parthenope is one of the most layered figures in Greek mythology. Naples was built over the memory of her voice, and became the city's symbol. The ancient people of Naples depicted Parthenope on their coin adorned, sovereign, at rest. Through this excavated coin from ancient Rome, she returns not as ruin, but as origin.
Excavated to remind you that the voice, even when refused, can still found a shore.
Authentic ancient coin, cast in brass, plated with 18kt gold.




