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We encounter it first in Homer’s “Iliad” and then again in Virgil’s “Aeneid,” where it appears at the doors of Hades alongside Gorgons, centaurs and Harpies.

She joins Facebook groups like “Hardcore Hags, Harridans and Harpies” — “a resistance group for women over 50.”

Their next adventure was with the Harpies, frightful flying creatures with hooked beaks and claws who always left behind them a loathsome stench, sickening to all living creatures.

The images of Chiron the centaur and his pupil Odysseus, or the purposeful winged Harpies, are burned into me.

The Greek hero sails through Harpies and clashing rocks to the Golden Fleece, guarded by the Hydra.