Harpy
c. 700 BCE – 400 CEattested
Strophades, Greek world
- Greek
Wind spirits with the faces of women and the bodies of birds, who snatched food from the blind seer Phineus as divine punishment. Their name, 'snatchers', is still used for grasping people.
Known for
- snatchers of food
- agents of punishment
- driven off by the Argonauts
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.