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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Стимфалски птици – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Стимфалски птици" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evned_lenn_Stymfalos" title="Evned lenn Stymfalos – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Evned lenn Stymfalos" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocells_del_llac_Estimfal" title="Ocells del llac Estimfal – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ocells del llac Estimfal" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stymfal%C5%A1t%C3%AD_pt%C3%A1ci" title="Stymfalští ptáci – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Stymfalští ptáci" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stymphalische_V%C3%B6gel" title="Stymphalische Vögel – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Stymphalische Vögel" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stymphalose_linnud" title="Stymphalose linnud – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Stymphalose linnud" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%84%CF%85%CE%BC%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%8C%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%82" title="Στυμφαλίδες Όρνιθες – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Στυμφαλίδες Όρνιθες" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aves_del_Est%C3%ADnfalo" title="Aves del Estínfalo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Aves del Estínfalo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estinfaloko_txoriak" title="Estinfaloko txoriak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Estinfaloko txoriak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="پرندگان استومفالوسی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پرندگان استومفالوسی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oiseaux_du_lac_Stymphale" title="Oiseaux du lac Stymphale – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Oiseaux du lac Stymphale" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aves_de_Est%C3%ADnfalo" title="Aves de Estínfalo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Aves de Estínfalo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%8C%80%ED%8C%94%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A4%EC%9D%98_%EC%83%88" title="스팀팔로스의 새 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스팀팔로스의 새" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%B4%D6%83%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%B8%D5%BD%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%A9%D5%BC%D5%B9%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Ստիմփալոսյան թռչուններ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ստիմփալոսյան թռչուններ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burung_Stimfalia" title="Burung Stimfalia – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Burung Stimfalia" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stymfalsfuglar" title="Stymfalsfuglar – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Stymfalsfuglar" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uccelli_del_lago_Stinfalo" title="Uccelli del lago Stinfalo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Uccelli del lago Stinfalo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%94" title="ציפורי סטימפליה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ציפורי סטימפליה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A4%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="სტიმფალიდები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სტიმფალიდები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D2%9B%D2%B1%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Стимфалия құстары – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Стимфалия құстары" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aves_Stymphalides" title="Aves Stymphalides – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Aves Stymphalides" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulle_vum_S%C3%A9i_Stymphalos" title="Vulle vum Séi Stymphalos – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Vulle vum Séi Stymphalos" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimfalo_pauk%C5%A1%C4%8Diai" title="Stimfalo paukščiai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Stimfalo paukščiai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Стимфалски птици – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Стимфалски птици" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A4%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98" title="სტიმფალიდეფი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="სტიმფალიდეფი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stymphaliden" title="Stymphaliden – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Stymphaliden" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%81%AE%E9%B3%A5" title="ステュムパーロスの鳥 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ステュムパーロスの鳥" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_stymfaliske_fuglene" title="De stymfaliske fuglene – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="De stymfaliske fuglene" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimfaliya_qushlari" title="Stimfaliya qushlari – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Stimfaliya qushlari" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptaki_stymfalijskie" title="Ptaki stymfalijskie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ptaki stymfalijskie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aves_do_Lago_Est%C3%ADnfalo" title="Aves do Lago Estínfalo – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Aves do Lago Estínfalo" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" 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class="infobox-image"><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_(M.A.N._Madrid)_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg/220px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg/330px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg/440px-Mosaico_Trabajos_H%C3%A9rcules_%28M.A.N._Madrid%29_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2087" data-file-height="2744" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> and the Stymphalian birds. Detail of a Roman mosaic from <a href="/wiki/Lliria,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Lliria, Spain">Llíria</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>).</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Grouping</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Legendary_creature" title="Legendary creature">Legendary creature</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sub grouping</th><td class="infobox-data">Birds</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Folklore</th><td class="infobox-data">Greek mythology</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Greece</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(regional_unit)" title="Arcadia (regional unit)">Arcadia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Habitat</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lake_Stymphalia" title="Lake Stymphalia">Lake Stymphalia</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Stymphalian birds</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">stim-<span style="font-size:90%">FAY</span>-lee-ən</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Στυμφαλίδες ὄρνιθες</span>, Modern transliteration <i>Stymfalídes Órnithes</i>) are a group of voracious birds in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>. The birds' appellation is derived from their dwelling in a swamp in <a href="/wiki/Stymphalus_(Arcadia)" title="Stymphalus (Arcadia)">Stymphalia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Stymphalian birds are man-eating birds with beaks of <a href="/wiki/Bronze" title="Bronze">bronze</a>, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and poisonous dung. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>These fly against those who come to hunt them, wounding and killing them with their beaks. All armour of bronze or iron that men wear is pierced by the birds; but if they weave a garment of thick cork, the beaks of the Stymphalian birds are caught in the cork garment, just as the wings of small birds stick in bird-lime. These birds are of the size of a crane, and are like the ibis, but their beaks are more powerful, and not crooked like that of the ibis.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>. <i>Description of Greece</i>, 8.22.5<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_042.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_042.jpg/220px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_042.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_042.jpg/330px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_042.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_042.jpg/440px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_042.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="1583" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Killing_the_Stymphalian_Birds" title="Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds">Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer" title="Albrecht Dürer">Albrecht Dürer</a>, 1500.</figcaption></figure> <p>These birds were pets of <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a>, the goddess of the hunt; or had been brought up by <a href="/wiki/Ares" title="Ares">Ares</a>, the god of war.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They migrated to a marsh in <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(region)" title="Arcadia (region)">Arcadia</a> to escape a pack of <a href="/wiki/Gray_wolf" class="mw-redirect" title="Gray wolf">wolves</a>. There they bred quickly and swarmed over the countryside, destroying crops, fruit trees, and townspeople. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Sixth_Labour_of_Heracles">The Sixth Labour of Heracles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Sixth Labour of Heracles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Stymphalian birds were defeated by <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> (Hercules) in his <a href="/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#Sixth:_Stymphalian_birds" title="Labours of Hercules">sixth labour</a> for <a href="/wiki/Eurystheus" title="Eurystheus">Eurystheus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Heracles could not go into the marsh to reach the nests of the birds, as the ground would not support his weight. <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>, noticing the hero's plight, gave Heracles a rattle called <i><a href="/wiki/Krotala" class="mw-redirect" title="Krotala">krotala</a></i>, which <a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a> had made especially for the occasion. Heracles shook the krotala (similar to <a href="/wiki/Castanets" title="Castanets">castanets</a>) on a certain mountain that overhung the lake and thus frightening the birds into the air.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Heracles then shot many of them with feathered arrows tipped with poisonous blood from the slain <a href="/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra" title="Lernaean Hydra">Hydra</a>. In some versions of this story this labour was discounted because of the help of <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The rest flew far away, never to plague Arcadia again. Heracles brought some of the slain birds to Eurystheus as proof of his success.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The surviving birds made a new home on the island of Aretias in the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Euxine Sea</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Argonauts" title="Argonauts">Argonauts</a> later encountered them there. </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Mnaseas" title="Mnaseas">Mnaseas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they were not birds, but women and daughters of <a href="/wiki/Stymphalus" title="Stymphalus">Stymphalus</a> and Ornis, and were killed by Heracles because they did not receive him hospitably. In the temple of the Stymphalian Artemis, however, they were represented as birds, and behind the temple, there were white marble statues of maidens with birds' feet.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classical_literature_sources">Classical literature sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Classical literature sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chronological listing of the main classical literature sources for the Stymphalian birds (not comprehensive): </p> <ul><li>Sophocles, <i>The Philoctetes</i>, 1092 ff with the Scholiast (trans. Jebb) (Greek tragedy 5th century BC)</li></ul> <p>Regarding the Sophocles source, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Claverhouse_Jebb" title="Richard Claverhouse Jebb">Jebb</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> says <a href="/wiki/Richard_Fran%C3%A7ois_Philippe_Brunck" title="Richard François Philippe Brunck">Brunck</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reads "πτωκάδες" as "πλωάδες" which is an epithet given by Apollonius Rhodius to the Stymphalian birds in <i>Argonautica</i> 2. 1054. </p> <ul><li>Apollonius Rhodius, <i>Argonautica</i> 2. 1054 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry 3rd century BC)</li> <li>Mnaseas, <i>Scholiast on Apoll. Rhod. 2.105</i>4 (trans Mehler) (Greek history 3rd century BC)</li> <li>Diodorus Siculus, <i>Library of History</i> 3. 30. 4 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek history 1st century BC)</li> <li>Diodorus Siculus, <i>Library of History</i> 4. 13. 2</li> <li>Lucretius, <i>Of The Nature of Things</i> 5. Proem 1 (trans. Leonard) (Roman philosophy 1st century BC)</li> <li>Ovid, <i>Metamorphoses</i> 9. 187 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman epic poetry 1st century BC to 1st century AD)</li> <li>Strabo, <i>Geography</i> 8. 6. 8 (trans. Jones) (Greek geography 1st century BC to 1st century AD)</li> <li>Philippus of Thessalonica, <i>The Twelve Labors of Hercule</i>s (<i>The Greek Classics</i> ed. Miller Vol 3 1909 p. 397) (Greek epigram 1st century AD)</li> <li>Seneca, <i>Hercules Furens</i> 243 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy 1st century AD)</li> <li>Seneca, <i>Medea</i> 771 ff (trans. Miller)</li> <li>Seneca, <i>Phoenissae</i> 420 ff (trans. Miller)</li> <li>Seneca, <i>Hercules Oetaeus</i> 17–30 (trans. Miller). (Roman tragedy 1st century AD)</li> <li>Seneca, <i>Hercules Oetaeus</i> 1237 ff</li> <li>Seneca, <i>Hercules Oetaeus</i> 1813 ff</li> <li>Statius, <i>Thebaid</i> 4. 100 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic poetry 1st century AD)</li> <li>Statius, <i>Thebaid</i> 4. 292 ff</li> <li>Plutarch, <i>Moralia</i>, On the Fortune of Alexander, 341. 11 ff (trans. Babbitt) (Greek philosophy 1st century AD to 2nd century AD)</li> <li>Pseudo-Apollodorus, <i>The Library</i> 2. 5. 6 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography 2nd century AD)</li> <li>Pausanias, <i>Description of Greece</i> 5. 10. 9 (trans. Frazer) (Greek travelogue 2nd century AD)</li> <li>Pausanias, <i>Description of Greece</i> 8. 22. 4–5</li> <li>Pseudo-Hyginus, <i>Fabulae</i> 20 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography 2nd century AD)</li> <li>Pseudo-Hyginus, <i>Fabulae</i> 30</li> <li>Quintus Smyrnaeus, <i>Fall of Troy</i> 6. 227 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic poetry 4th century AD)</li> <li>Servius, <i>In Vergilii Carmina Commentarii</i> 8. 299 (trans. Thilo) (Greek commentary 4th century AD to 5th century AD)</li> <li>Nonnos, <i>Dionysiaca</i> 25. 242 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry 5th century AD)</li> <li>Nonnos <i>Dionysiac</i>a 29. 237 ff</li> <li>Boethius, <i>The Consolation of Philosophy</i> 4. 7. 13 ff (trans. Rand & Stewart) (Roman philosophy 6th century AD)</li> <li>Tzetzes, <i>Chiliades</i> or <i>Book of Histories</i> 2. 291 ff (trans. Untila et al.) (Greco-Byzantine history 12 century AD)</li> <li>Tzetzes, <i>Chiliades</i> or <i>Book of Histories</i> 2. 496 ff</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Stymphalian birds are featured as new monsters in the <a href="/wiki/Dungeon_(magazine)" title="Dungeon (magazine)"><i>Dungeon</i> magazine</a> adventure "The Chest of the Aloeids".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the 2003 <a href="/wiki/Real-time_strategy" title="Real-time strategy">real-time strategy</a> game <i><a href="/wiki/Age_of_Mythology:_The_Titans" title="Age of Mythology: The Titans">Age of Mythology: The Titans</a></i>, the birds are available as flying units for the Atlantean culture.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Stymphalian birds appear in several of <a href="/wiki/Rick_Riordan" title="Rick Riordan">Rick Riordan</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Chronicles" title="Camp Half-Blood Chronicles">Camp Half-Blood Chronicles</a></i> books, particularly <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea_of_Monsters" title="The Sea of Monsters">The Sea of Monsters</a></i> where they are defeated by archers after being distracted by a <a href="/wiki/Boombox" title="Boombox">boombox</a> playing <a href="/wiki/Dean_Martin" title="Dean Martin">Dean Martin</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Volare_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Volare (song)">Volare</a>."</li> <li>Stymphalian birds are depicted on one of the <a href="/wiki/Steyr_AUG" title="Steyr AUG">Steyr AUG</a> skins from the computer game <a href="/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive" title="Counter-Strike: Global Offensive">Counter-Strike: Global Offensive</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon" title="Pokémon">Pokémon</a> <a href="/wiki/Skarmory" class="mw-redirect" title="Skarmory">Skarmory</a> is partially based on the Stymphalian birds.</li> <li>Referenced in Matthew Reilly's 2016 novel “The Four Legendary Kingdoms” and believed to be the inspiration for the bronze and silver humanoid figures depicted in subsequent novels in the series.</li> <li>In the Agatha Christie short-story compilation <i><a href="/wiki/The_Labours_of_Hercules" title="The Labours of Hercules">The Labours of Hercules</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Hercule_Poirot" title="Hercule Poirot">Hercule Poirot</a>, in the course of pursuing cases paralleling the story of his namesake, deals with some blackmailers he likens to the Stymphalian Birds.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%27Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds%27_by_Gustave_Moreau,_c_1872.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hercules and the Stymphalian Birds' by Gustave Moreau, c 1872"><img alt="Hercules and the Stymphalian Birds' by Gustave Moreau, c 1872" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/%27Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds%27_by_Gustave_Moreau%2C_c_1872.jpg/120px-%27Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds%27_by_Gustave_Moreau%2C_c_1872.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/%27Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds%27_by_Gustave_Moreau%2C_c_1872.jpg/180px-%27Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds%27_by_Gustave_Moreau%2C_c_1872.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/%27Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds%27_by_Gustave_Moreau%2C_c_1872.jpg/240px-%27Hercules_and_the_Stymphalian_Birds%27_by_Gustave_Moreau%2C_c_1872.jpg 2x" data-file-width="956" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Hercules and the Stymphalian Birds' by Gustave Moreau, c 1872</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kayseri_Herakles_Lahdi_10.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Kayseri Herakles Lahdi"><img alt="Kayseri Herakles Lahdi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Kayseri_Herakles_Lahdi_10.JPG/80px-Kayseri_Herakles_Lahdi_10.JPG" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Kayseri_Herakles_Lahdi_10.JPG/120px-Kayseri_Herakles_Lahdi_10.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Kayseri_Herakles_Lahdi_10.JPG/160px-Kayseri_Herakles_Lahdi_10.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3168" data-file-height="4752" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Kayseri Herakles Lahdi</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1500_Duerer_Herkules_im_Kampf_gegen_die_stymphalischen_Voegel_anagoria.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds by Albrecht Dürer (1500)"><img alt="Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds by Albrecht Dürer (1500)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/1500_Duerer_Herkules_im_Kampf_gegen_die_stymphalischen_Voegel_anagoria.JPG/120px-1500_Duerer_Herkules_im_Kampf_gegen_die_stymphalischen_Voegel_anagoria.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/1500_Duerer_Herkules_im_Kampf_gegen_die_stymphalischen_Voegel_anagoria.JPG/180px-1500_Duerer_Herkules_im_Kampf_gegen_die_stymphalischen_Voegel_anagoria.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/1500_Duerer_Herkules_im_Kampf_gegen_die_stymphalischen_Voegel_anagoria.JPG/240px-1500_Duerer_Herkules_im_Kampf_gegen_die_stymphalischen_Voegel_anagoria.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3735" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds by Albrecht Dürer (1500)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_birds_Louvre_F387.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Heracles and the Stymphalian birds. Attic black-figure amphora, 500-490 BC"><img alt="Heracles and the Stymphalian birds. Attic black-figure amphora, 500-490 BC" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Herakles_birds_Louvre_F387.jpg/72px-Herakles_birds_Louvre_F387.jpg" decoding="async" width="72" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Herakles_birds_Louvre_F387.jpg/109px-Herakles_birds_Louvre_F387.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Herakles_birds_Louvre_F387.jpg/145px-Herakles_birds_Louvre_F387.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1572" data-file-height="2596" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Heracles and the Stymphalian birds. Attic black-figure amphora, 500-490 BC</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_Stymphalian_BM_B163.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Heracles killing the Stymphalian birds with his sling. Attic black-figured amphora, c. 540 BC. Said to be from Vulci."><img alt="Heracles killing the Stymphalian birds with his sling. Attic black-figured amphora, c. 540 BC. Said to be from Vulci." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Herakles_Stymphalian_BM_B163.jpg/120px-Herakles_Stymphalian_BM_B163.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Herakles_Stymphalian_BM_B163.jpg/180px-Herakles_Stymphalian_BM_B163.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Herakles_Stymphalian_BM_B163.jpg/240px-Herakles_Stymphalian_BM_B163.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2260" data-file-height="1935" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Heracles killing the Stymphalian birds with his sling. Attic black-figured amphora, c. 540 BC. Said to be from Vulci.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_at_Lake_Stymphalos.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Hercules at Lake Stymphalos by Gustave Moreau"><img alt="Hercules at Lake Stymphalos by Gustave Moreau" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_at_Lake_Stymphalos.jpg/100px-Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_at_Lake_Stymphalos.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_at_Lake_Stymphalos.jpg/150px-Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_at_Lake_Stymphalos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_at_Lake_Stymphalos.jpg/201px-Gustave_Moreau_-_Hercules_at_Lake_Stymphalos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="945" data-file-height="1130" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Hercules at Lake Stymphalos by Gustave Moreau</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herakles_erlegt_mit_Pfeilen_die_stymphalischen_V%C3%B6gel.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Heracles killing the Stymphalian birds with arrows"><img alt="Heracles killing the Stymphalian birds with arrows" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Herakles_erlegt_mit_Pfeilen_die_stymphalischen_V%C3%B6gel.JPG/120px-Herakles_erlegt_mit_Pfeilen_die_stymphalischen_V%C3%B6gel.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="57" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Herakles_erlegt_mit_Pfeilen_die_stymphalischen_V%C3%B6gel.JPG/180px-Herakles_erlegt_mit_Pfeilen_die_stymphalischen_V%C3%B6gel.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Herakles_erlegt_mit_Pfeilen_die_stymphalischen_V%C3%B6gel.JPG/240px-Herakles_erlegt_mit_Pfeilen_die_stymphalischen_V%C3%B6gel.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1103" data-file-height="525" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Heracles killing the Stymphalian birds with arrows</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hercules_Killing_the_Stymphalian_Birds" title="Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds">Hercules Killing the Stymphalian Birds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stymphalian_Birds_(Savva)" title="Stymphalian Birds (Savva)">Stymphalian Birds (Savva)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stymphalian_birds&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.%208.6.8&lang=original">8.6.8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.%208.22.4&lang=original">8.22.4</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>. <i>Description of Greece</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.22.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160">8.22.5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a>. <i>ad <a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i>. Book 8.300.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">Tzetzes</a>, <i>Chiliades</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/617#2.290">2.291 ff.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <i>Fabulae</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206#30">30</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">Scholia</a> ad <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i> 2.1053. The use of a brazen rattle to frighten the birds was mentioned both by <a href="/wiki/Pherecydes_of_Athens" title="Pherecydes of Athens">Pherecydes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hellanicus_of_Lesbos" title="Hellanicus of Lesbos">Hellanicus</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, 2.5.6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Smyrnaeus" title="Quintus Smyrnaeus">Quintus Smyrnaeus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus6.html">6.253 ff.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollonius of Rhodes, <i>Argonautica</i> 2.1052–1057</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scholia ad Apollonius, <i>Argonautica</i> 2.1054</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pausanias, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D8%3Achapter%3D22%3Asection%3D7">8.22.7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1">"Appendix". <i>Sophocles the Plays and Fragments</i>. 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ISBN 0-674-99135-4. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021">Greek text available from the same website</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius Rhodius</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i> translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/126">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li>Apollonius Rhodius, <i>Argonautica</i>. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Gaius Julius Hyginus</a>, <i>Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus</i> translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li>"Greece: I Ancient”, in <i>The New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians</i>, London 2001, vol. 10, pp. 344–34</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Servius_(grammarian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Servius (grammarian)">Maurus Servius Honoratus</a>, <i>In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii;</i> recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0053">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <i>Description of Greece</i> with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-99328-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-99328-4">0-674-99328-4</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a></li> <li>Pausanias, <i>Graeciae Descriptio.</i> <i>3 vols</i>. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Smyrnaeus" title="Quintus Smyrnaeus">Quintus Smyrnaeus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Posthomerica" title="Posthomerica">The Fall of Troy</a></i> translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/863">Online version at Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li>Quintus Smyrnaeus, <i>The Fall of Troy</i>. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Geographica" title="Geographica">The Geography of Strabo</a>.</i> Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Strabo, <i>Geographica</i> edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">Tzetzes, John</a>, <i>Histories or Chiliades</i> unedited translation by Ana Untila (Book I), Gary Berkowitz (II-IV), Konstantinos Ramiotis (V-VI), Vasiliki Dogani (VII-VIII), Jonathan Alexander (IX-X), Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman (XI), and Nikolaos Giallousis (XII-XIII), with translation adjustments by Brady Kiesling affecting about 15 percent of the total . 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