Minoan bull-leaper fresco fragment 1450-1300 BCE
“It is not lawful, O sons of Boreas, to strike with your swords the Harpies, the hounds of mighty Zeus; but I myself will give you a pledge, that hereafter they shall not draw near to Phineus.”
With these words she took an oath by the waters of Styx, which to all the Gods is most dread and most awful, that the Harpies would never thereafter again approach the home of Phineus, son of Agenor, for so it was fated. And the heroes yielding to the oath, turned back their flight to the ship. And on account of this men call them the Islands of Turning though aforetime they called them the Floating Islands. And the Harpies and Iris parted. They entered their den in Minoan Crete; but she sped up to Olympus, soaring aloft on her swift wings."
-Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica: Book II
With these words she took an oath by the waters of Styx, which to all the Gods is most dread and most awful, that the Harpies would never thereafter again approach the home of Phineus, son of Agenor, for so it was fated. And the heroes yielding to the oath, turned back their flight to the ship. And on account of this men call them the Islands of Turning though aforetime they called them the Floating Islands. And the Harpies and Iris parted. They entered their den in Minoan Crete; but she sped up to Olympus, soaring aloft on her swift wings."
-Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica: Book II
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| Fragment of a miniature fresco with a figure seizing a bull´s horn. The left hand wearing jewelry, and part of the torso and hair are preserved. Knossos, Palace LM I B - LM III B, 1450 - 1350/1300 BC Crete, Iraklion, AMI. |
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