Strophades

The Strophades were a small group of islands off the south-west coast of Greece.

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

They were fent by Juno to plun - der the tables of Phineus; whence they were driven to the iflands. called Strophades, by Zethes and Calais.

Mythology; or, A history of the fabulous deities of the ancients: designed to facilitate the study of history, poetry, painting, etc 1795

296: Others say (the islands) were called Strophades, because they turned there and prayed Zeus to seize the Harpies.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

296: Others say (the islands) were called Strophades, because they turned there and prayed Zeus to seize the Harpies.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

Echinades islands which are now called because of her, Strophades

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

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.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

The shores of the Strophades first receive me thus won from the waves, Strophades the Greek name they bear, islands lying in the great Ionian sea, which boding Celaeno and the other

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

North of the Strophades, along the western coast of Greece, were the six Ionian islands known in Grecian history as Paxos,

Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

Once in the Strophades, some clusters belonging to the Ionian Islands, where he and his troops had landed to get food, and were eating the flesh of the numerous goats which they found climbing about the rocks, down on them came the harpies, horrible birds with women's faces and hooked hands, with which they snatched away the food and spoiled what they could not eat.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Strophades, they unwittingly wrong the Harpies, whose queen Celaeno thereupon threatens them with a portentous famine.

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902