In fact, in Greek mythology, the obstacles and dangers to which sailors were subjected were represented precisely by the mermaids. The approach of the mermaids to the Li Galli archipelago is not accidental. Gallo Lungo is the largest of the three and is the only one to have been inhabited since Roman times, as documented by the remains of a maritime Domus. Today the archipelago belongs to the municipality of Positano, a few kilometers from the Sorrento Peninsula and consists of three islands: "Gallo Lungo", "La Rotonda" and "Dei Briganti". The first to tell of these islands was Strabo, a Greek geographer of the 1st century BC in his "Geography", identifying them as the headquarters of the mermaids and giving them the name of Sirenai or Sirenussai. The mythological place where she died is remembered by the beautiful "fountain of the Mermaid", in Mergellina in the center of Jacopo Sannazzaro square. One of these, Parthenopes, before committing suicide decided to swim to the coast, which since then took the name of Neapolis ("new city").
The latter, for humiliation, threw themselves into the sea, turned into stones. And where the Argonauts were saved thanks to the sound of Orpheus' lyre, which emitted sounds more powerful than those of the mermaids. Li Galli archipelago or "of the Mermaids", where Ulysses, the protagonist of Homer's Odyssey, managed to resist the siren song by being tied to the mast of his ship, on the advice of the sorceress Circe.
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