267, &c.), the Harpies were the daughters of Thaumas by the Oceanid Electra, fair-locked and winged maidens, who surpassed winds and birds in the rapidity of their flight. 371) thus, they carried off the daughters of king Pandareus, and gave them as servants to the Erinnyes. 149, &c.) When a person suddenly disappeared from the earth, it was said that he had been carried off by the Harpies ( Od. Podarge, who was married to Zephyrus, and gave birth to the two horses of Achilles, Xanthus and Balius. 66, 77.) Homer mentions only one by name, viz. HARPYIAE (Harpuiai), that is, "the swift robbers," are, in the Homeric poems, nothing but personified storm winds. XANTHOS, PODARKES (by Boreas) (Nonnus Dionysiaca 37.155) AREION (Quintus Smyrnaeus 4.569) OFFSPRING OF AELLOPOS PHLOGEUS, HARPAGOS (Stesichorus Frag 178)
XANTHOS, BALIOS (by Zephyros) (Homer Iliad 16.148, Quintus Smyrnaeus 3.743) OKYPETE, PODARKE-AELLOPOS, KELAINO (Hyginus Preface, Hyginus Fabulae 14) OFFSPRING OF PODARGE OKYPETE-OKYTHOE-OKYPODE, AELLOPOS-NIKOTHOE (Apollodorus 1.121) PODARGE (Homer Iliad 16.148, Stesichorus Frag 178) OKYPETE, AELLO (Hesiod Theogony 265, Apollodorus 1.10) THAUMAS & ELEKTRA (Hesiod Theogony 265, Apollodorus 1.10, Hyginus Preface) The Harpyiai were depicted as winged women, sometimes with ugly faces, or with the lower bodies of birds. When the Argonauts came to visit, the winged Boreades gave chase, and pursued the Harpies to the Strophades Islands, where the goddess Iris commanded them to turn back and leave the storm-spirits unharmed. Whenever a plate of food was set before him, the Harpyiai would swoop down and snatch it away, befouling any scraps left behind. The Harpyiai were once sent by Zeus to plague King Phineus of Thrake (Thrace) as punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods. Sudden, mysterious dissappearances were often attributed to the Harpyiai.
They were known as the hounds of Zeus and were despatched by the god to snatch away ( harpazô) people and things from the earth.
THE HARPYIAI (Harpies) were the spirits ( daimones) of sudden, sharp gusts of wind. Snatchers ( harpazô) Phineus and the Harpies, Athenian red-figure hydria C5th B.C., The J.
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