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d their move-ments. Homer thought ofthem as suddenly carryingaway human beings. Hes-iod thought them to be wing-ed maidens whose flight wasswifter than that of birds ; hementions only Ocypete andAello. Later poets depictthem as having bodies ofbirds, claws of lions, withfaces of maidens, but… … A Harpy, British Museum (froma tomb at Xanthus). PHORCYS {Phdinys\ (Table I, 5S.) Phorcys has no individual importance, but the longline of his strange,-dark descendants cannot be omittedfrom mythology. Descendants of Phorcys and Hecate (see Table I). 26 302 GREEK MYTHOLOGY. SCYLLA \_Skyna\ (Table…
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