Editing Podarge

{{Short description|One of the Harpies in Greek mythology}}
{{distinguish|Podarces|Podarkes (disambiguation){{!}}Podarkes}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Podarge''' ({{langx|grc|Ποδάργη||swift-foot}}) is a [[harpy]], a personification of a swift wind and mate of [[Zephyrus]], the West Wind. She is the mother of [[Balius and Xanthus]] — two divine horses renowned for their swiftness and who were gifted to [[Achilles]], running as fast as the wind. In the ''[[Iliad]]'', she is described by [[Homer]] as having taken horse form, and 'grazing in a meadow by the stream of Ocean'.<ref>{{cite book | last=Mackie | first=C. J. | title=Rivers of Fire | publisher=New Academia Publishing/ The Spring | publication-place=Washington | date=2008 | isbn=978-0-9800814-2-8 | page=73}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=March | first=Jennifer R. | title=Dictionary of classical mythology | publisher=Oxbow Books | publication-place=Oxford Philadelphia | date=2014 | isbn=978-1-78297-635-6 | page=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=Probert | first=Philomen | title=Zeus on the stud farm? Against a Homeric instance of attractio relativi | journal=Mnemosyne | volume=69 | issue=3 | date=2016-05-07 | issn=0026-7074 | doi=10.1163/1568525X-12341879 | doi-access=free | pages=377 | url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:febd06a7-6724-48e5-8e2a-423a865bf1e4/files/m6d139f64a09c56facd562792d906f8b9 | access-date=2024-12-12| url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Habinnas, Harma'tius, Harpyiae | website=Perseus Digital Library | url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DH%3Aentry+group%3D3%3Aentry%3Dharpyiae-bio-1 | access-date=2024-12-17}}</ref>

Some classical authors also regard her as Zephyrus' wife. However as the rainbow goddess [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]] is his other wife and sister of Podarge, there is confusion between the two.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

[[Stesichorus]] says the divine horses Phlogeus and Harpagos are the offspring of Podarge.<ref>''RE'', s.v. Podarge (1); [[Stesichorus]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/stesichorus_i-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.61.xml#note_LCL476_61_3 fr. 1 Campbell].</ref>

Her other names are ''Podarkes'', ''Podarke-Aellopos'' and ''Podarces''.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

==Sources==
* Homer. ''Iliad'' xvi, 148.
* Hyginus. ''Fabulae'' Preface, Fabulae 14.
* Quintus Smyrnaeus. ''Fall of Troy 3'' 743.
* Stesichorus. ''Funeral Games of Pelias'' Fragment 178.
* Nonnus. ''Dionysiaca 37'' 155.

==Notes==
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==References==
* Campbell, David A., ''Greek Lyric, Volume III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others'', [[Loeb Classical Library]] No. 476, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]], 1991. {{ISBN|978-0674995253}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL476/1991/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press].

[[Category:Greek legendary creatures]]
[[Category:Legendary birds]]
[[Category:Harpies]]
[[Category:Mythological hybrids]]