Originally the site of an ancient Roman anchorage, in the Middle Ages the islands became medieval fiefdoms of the 13th-century Emperor Frederick II and the Capetian House of Anjou. The modern name, I Galli or The Cocks, references the bird-like form of the ancient sirens. The terms Sirenai and Sirenusai, from the Latin Sirenusae, meaning indicate both the sirens themselves and their residence. In ancient stories, the sirens were depicted as having bodies of a bird and human heads, but the medieval interpretations of the stories depicted them as mermaids. They are mentioned in the 1st century BC by Strabo, the Greek Geographer and by Straton of Sardis in 120 AD. One of them played the lyre, another sang, and another played the flute. Several sirens were said to have inhabited the islands, the most famous of whom were Parthenope, Leucosia, and Ligeia. Smaller islets include, nearer the shore, Isca and, midway between the main islands and Isca, a prominent rocky outcropping that juts above the water, Vetara. La Castelluccia, also known as Gallo dei Briganti.Il Gallo Lungo, which takes the form of a dolphin.The archipelago consists of three main islands: The name, Sirenuse, is a reference to the mythological sirens said to have lived there. They are part of the Campanian Archipelago. The Sirenusas ( Italian: Le Sirenuse), also known as the Gallos ( Li Galli, "the Cocks"), are an archipelago of little islands off the Amalfi Coast of Italy between Isle of Capri and 6 km (4 mi) southwest of Province of Salerno's Positano, to which it is administratively attached.
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