![]() ![]() ![]() Aeschylus Įven as early as the time of Aeschylus, harpies were described as ugly creatures with wings, and later writers carried their notions of the harpies so far as to represent them as most disgusting monsters. He Harpyiai (Harpies) of the lovely hair, Okypete (Ocypete) and Aello, and these two in the speed of their wings keep pace with the blowing winds, or birds in flight, as they soar and swoop, high aloft. To Hesiod, they were imagined as fair-locked and winged maidens, who flew as fast as the wind: Pottery art depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Roman and Byzantine writers detailed their ugliness. Harpies were generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens, faces pale with hunger and long claws on their hands. In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, Ancient Greek: ἅρπυια, romanized: hárpyia, pronounced Latin: harpȳia ) is a half-human and half- bird, often believed to be a personification of storm winds. A harpy in the heraldic style, John Vinycomb, 1906. ![]()
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