- As the
Strophades, they were
identified as the dwelling-place of the Harpies.
Virgil states that the
Harpy drove the
Trojans from the
Strophades (Aeneid...
-
reached the Echinades, and as she
never returned, the
islands were
called Strophades. But
being worn out with fatigue, she fell down
simultaneously with her...
- also by
Poseidon Celaeno, one of the Harpies, whom
Aeneas encountered at
Strophades. She gave him
prophecies of his
coming journeys. Celaeno, one of the Danaïdes...
-
Propontis till she came to the
Echinadian Islands,
which are now
called Strophades after her; for when she came to them she
turned (estraphe) and
being at...
- Symplegades. It is said that the
Boreads were
turned back by Iris at the
Strophades. The islands' name,
meaning "Islands of Turning",
refers to this event...
- the
repellent harpies make
their nests, Who
drove the
Trojans from the
Strophades With dire
announcements of the
coming woe. They have
broad wings, a human...
-
according to Apollonius, that the "Floating Islands" are now
called the
Strophades, the "Turning Islands".
Phineus then
revealed to the
Argonauts the path...
- The ****enic
Trench (HT) is an
oceanic trough located in the
forearc of the ****enic arc, an
arcuate archipelago on the
southern margin of the
Aegean Sea...
-
promptly desert it
after a
plague proves this is not the
place for them; the
Strophades,
where they
encounter the
Harpy Celaeno, who
tells them to
leave her island...
- back the
Argonauts Zetes and Calais, who had
pursued the
Harpies to the
Strophades ("Islands of Turning"). The
brothers had
driven off the
monsters from...
