CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE
Hesiod, in the so-called Journey round the Earth, says that Phineus was brought by the Harpies "to the land of milk-feeders[1] who have waggons for houses."
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"The Aethiopians and Ligurians and mare-milking Scythians."
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As they were being pursued, one of the Harpies fell into the river Tigres, in Peloponnesus which is now called Harpys after her. Some call this one Nicothoë, and others Aëllopus. The other who was called Ocypete, or as some say Ocythoë (though Hesiod calls her Ocypus), fled down the Propontis and reached as far as to the Echinades islands which are now called because of her, Strophades (Turning Islands).
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Hesiod also says that those with Zetes[2] turned and prayed to Zeus:
"There they prayed to the lord of Aenos who reigns on high."
Apollonius indeed says it was Iris who made Zetes and his following turn away, but Hesiod says Hermes.
Others say (the islands) were called Strophades, because they turned there and prayed Zeus to seize
- ↑ i.e. the nomad Scythians, who are described by Herodotus an feeding on mares' milk and living in caravans.
- ↑ Zetes and Calais, sons of Boreas, who were amongst the Argonauts, delivered Phineus from the Harpies. The Strophades ("Islands of Turning") are here supposed to have been so called because the sons of Boreas were there turned back by Iris from pursuing the Harpies.
