What Possessed John Bryant to INSTRUCT Readers of LEVIATHAN how to say Parthenope WRONG?

How long will John Bryant's astounding error mess up readers of Melville's poetry?

       Parthenope--All together now: “Accentuate the Antepenultimate”

       In his review of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE in the June 2019 LEVIATHAN on p. 110 John Bryant instructed his readers on basic pronunciation:

          "Parthenope (pronounced PAR-thin-OH-pee) is now the newly sanctioned title for what we have in the past referred to as Melville’s Burgundy Club Sketches.”

       Yes, Parthenope is Melville’s final title for the Gentian-Grandvin material, but Parthenope is NOT to be pronounced PAR-thin-OH-pee.”

          John Walker in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language (Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, 1848) has a section on Greek and Latin Proper Names, p. 51. There he specifies which words are to be pronounced with emphasis on the penultimate syllable and which are to be pronounced with the emphasis on the ante-penultimate syllable. Walker says that classic Greek and Roman APE and OPE endings are accented on the “Antepenultimate” syllable, and he gives Calliope, Penelope, and Parthenope among the examples. That linguistic phenomenon is exemplified in a good many poems in the 19^th century that mention Parthenope and violated in none.

HERE IS A MNEMONIC: ONLY A DOPE / SAYS PENELOPE.