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    Harpy - Wikipedia

    • In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy is a half-human and half-bird, often believed to be a personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems. See more

    Descriptions

    Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their … See more

    Functions and abodes

    The harpies seem originally to have been wind spirits (personifications of the destructive nature of wind). Their name means 'snatchers' or 'swift robbers', and they were said to steal food from their victims whil… See more

    Sub groupingHybrid
    Similar entitiesSiren
    CountryGreek and Roman
    Names and family

    Hesiod calls them two "lovely-haired" creatures, the daughters of Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra and sisters of Iris. Hyginus, however, cited a certain Ozomene as the mother of the harpies but he also recounted t… See more

    Mythology

    The most celebrated story in which the harpies play a part is that of King Phineus of Thrace, who was given the gift of prophecy by Zeus. Angry that Phineus gave away the god's secret plan, Zeus punished him by blinding hi… See more

    Later usage

    Harpies remained vivid in the Middle Ages. In Canto XIII of his Inferno, Dante Alighieri envisages the tortured wood infested with harpies, where the suicides have their punishment in the seventh ring of Hell:
    Here the re… See more

    Notes

    1. ^ Of uncertain etymology; R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin (Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 139).
    2. ^ ἅρπυια. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at … See more

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