Monsters

Harpies

Ἅρπυιαι

Overview

Winged female beings who torment the prophet Phineus by stealing or fouling his food.

Divine / Heroic Age

Unknown or primordial.

No children recorded.

Beyond Antiquity

Harpies still appears in the modern world through language, science, medicine, astronomy or culture.

Today: A historical insult for a grasping, unpleasant or predatory person.

The word derives from the Harpies, winged female beings of Greek myth who carried things away and tormented figures such as Phineus.