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harpies

Ἅρπυια , Harpuia grc Harpyiae la

Half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds from Greek and Roman mythology generally depicted as birds with the heads of maidens

A life on the record,
dated by its sources.

Roles, not beliefs

Coa Illustration Elements Harpy Rising Wings Displayed
Written and illustrated by John Vinycomb (1833–1928 biography)  · Public domain

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Family

The family of harpies

Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.

Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.

As documented
The family as a list · 2

Kinship in an account 2

What this means

Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.

Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Texts

In the texts

Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

1 statement on this record

  • 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Steve Swayne · CC BY 2.0

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