\b0 Winged monsters, daughters of the primordial marine god Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra. They belonged to the pre-
Olympian generation of gods and were represented as women with wings, or birds with a women's heads. The gods used them to inflict punishments on men and heroes whom they wanted to persecute for one reason or another. This was the case with \b \cf4 \ATXht11621 Phineus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , but on that occasion they were defeated by \b \cf4 \ATXht10302 Calais\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and \b \cf4 \ATXht12601 Zetes\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and forced to take refuge on the \b \cf4 \ATXht11916 Strophades\ATXht205 \b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 Islands. It was here that \b \cf4 \ATXht205 Aeneas\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 encountered them.
