Harpies as ugly winged bird-women, e. g. in Aeschylus ' The Eumenides ( line 50 ) are a late development, due to a confusion with the Sirens.

Harpies are also mentioned in the Percy Jackson series.

She swore an oath by the Styx that the Harpies would no longer harangue Phineus, and the Boreads then turned back to return to the Argonauts ; it is for this reason, according to Apollonius, that the " Floating Islands " are now called the Strophades, the " Turning Islands ".

" At the same time, Ovid says that they are the winged creatures who tormented the marooned Phineus by stealing the food off his table — that is, the Harpies.

Her sisters are the Harpies ; Aello, Celaeno and Ocypete.

Harpies are utterly untamable by the Beastmasters, and thus are somewhat unreliable.

* Morsimus and Melanthius: Two brothers who were related to the great tragic poet Aeschylus but who were also known for gluttony ( they are called ' Gorgons ' and ' Harpies '), they collaborated on a play in which the latter acted stridently and both should be spat upon by the Muse ( lines 801-816 ).

* Hellhounds are the pets of Harpies in Anne Bishop's The Black Jewels Series, and hellhounds ( called Shadow Hounds ) appear in Anne Bishop's Tir Alainn trilogy.

Since a person's most important capability – magical aptitude – does not depend on sex, gender equality is highly advanced in the Wizarding world, and the " battle of the sexes " never became much of an issue ( for example, Quidditch teams have both male and female players – except for known examples such as the Slytherin Quidditch Team, which is shown to have only boys on the team, and the Holyhead Harpies, which are known to be an all-female team ).

Millions, possibly billions, of years ago, the Wolf Demon spawned a race of Wolf-Men who warred against other Elderspawn such as the Bird-Women, Harpies, Bat-Men, Flying Fiends, Demons, Goblins, Serpent-Men ( spawn of the Elder God Set ), and Spider-Men ( spawn of Omm ).

Other flying animals were also known such as Griffins, Harpies and Tengus.

The character Mai Valentine in the Yu-gi-oh series uses a card deck based around Harpies.

Harpies appear as a minor enemy throughout the God of War video game series which is loosely based on Greek mythology.

A Minotaur, Pegasus, Pan, Pandora, Charon, Cupid, Ceres, Druids, Harpies, Oracles, Poseidon, Medusa, Fates, Djinn, Azrael, Goliath, and the Graeae appear in various games in the series.

Zeus had sent the Harpies to steal the food put out for Phineas each day.

Jason took pity on the emaciated king and killed the Harpies when they returned ; in other versions, Calais and Zetes chase the Harpies away.

Another child of Gaia and Pontus is Thaumas, who marries Electra, a sister of Doris, and has Iris ( Rainbow ) and two Harpies.

Atalanta can also be summoned if the player's city is attacked by a Sphinx or four Harpies.

The boys then covered the dragon's eyes with the Golden Fleece, which they had just discovered by going to Colchis on the Argo and obtaining it from the Harpies.

Harpies remained vivid in the Middle Ages.

Harpies appear in a number of different video games.

Harpies also appear in Dragon's Dogma.

Harpies also play a role in The Witcher 2.

For this reason he was also tormented by the Harpies, who stole or defiled whatever food he had at hand or, according to the Catalogue of Women, drove Phineus himself to the corners of the world.

However the Harpies plagued him, deliverance from this curse motivated Phineus's involvement in the voyage of the Argo.

When the ship landed by his Thracian home, Phineus described his torment to the crew and told them that his brothers-in-law, the wing-footed Boreads, both Argonauts, were fated to deliver him from the Harpies.

A trap was set: Phineus sat down to a meal with the Boreads standing guard, and as soon as he touched his food the Harpies swept down, devoured the food and flew off.

The Boreads gave chase, pursuing the Harpies as far as the " Floating Islands " before Iris stopped them lest they kill the Harpies against the will of the gods.

* One of the Harpies is named Podarge and, due to her union with Zephyrus, the god of the West Wind, was the mother of Balius and Xanthus, the horses of Achilles.

* The rainbow / messenger goddess Iris ( sister of the Harpies ) is sometimes also referred to as Podarge.

Often, therefore, there are a number of rules having the same effect, and commonly other sets of rules as well, having the opposite effect.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '', or, as is also commonly implied, that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same thing??

They dwell, in short, in the doltish twilight in which peasants and serfs of the past are commonly reported to have lived.

Members of this order with smooth skins are commonly referred to as frogs while those with warted skins are known as toads.

Though the prokaryotic cyanobacteria ( commonly referred to as blue-green algae ) were traditionally included as " algae " in older textbooks, many modern sources regard this as outdated as they are now considered to be bacteria.

Comparisons, which are most commonly planned, can be either simple or compound.

An adapted abacus, invented by Tim Cranmer, called a Cranmer abacus is still commonly used by individuals who are blind.

Most commonly, tones are indicated with diacritics, the way vowels are treated in abugidas.

The footing and stem wall are commonly 24 and 14 inches, much larger than a frame house because of the weight of the walls.

Ornamental annual perennials commonly grown as annuals are impatiens, wax begonia, snapdragon, Pelargonium, coleus and petunia.

They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.

Collectively they are commonly known as " water plantain ".

( In less formal treatments, all three systems are commonly called alphabets.

Solvent extraction and ion chromatography are commonly used for the separation.

Asteraceae or Compositae ( commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family ), are an exceedingly large and widespread family of Angiospermae.

The most commonly used physical therapy interventions for cerebellar ataxia are vestibular habituation, proprioceptive neurofaciliation, Frenkel exercises, and balance training ; however, therapy is often highly individualized and gait and coordination training are large components of therapy.

For example, automobile wheels made of an aluminium alloy are commonly referred to as simply " alloy wheels ", although in point of fact steels and most other metals in practical use are also alloys.

Because of their biological significance, amino acids are important in nutrition and are commonly used in nutritional supplements, fertilizers, and food technology.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land: