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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.”

Although the Argonauts had sailed east from Greece and Aeneas’ company were westward bound from Crete, the Trojans came upon the Harpies just as Jason and his men had done.

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.