Talk:Harpe

Iustinus, just created this article for the Harpe. Do you want to expand it? Thanks! The Ogre 14:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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Hmmm, well I was thinking I didn't have enough to write the article, but you took exactly what I wrote, put it in the article, and it's a perfectly viable stub. So I guess I was wrong. What can I do to expand it? Well, I suppose I could add quotations from classical sources, and if I'm lucky I can find my pictures and get my scanner to work. --Iustinus 17:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Iustinus! You are a Just man! Eh! Eh! The Ogre 19:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

--And you could include a translation of the greek for us... thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.33.233.51 (talk) 19:40, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

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Blade of Perseus

Does it have a sickle or not. .. the hook on the sword exposed. The whole damn thing 67.77.7.171 (talk) 12:18, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Can't find source for Cronus' harpe being made of flint

This page says "The harpe [...] was either a flint or adamantine blade". Both Hesiod's Theogony and Apollodorus' Bibliotheca describe Gaia creating an adamantine sickle/sword/harpe (Apollodorus. The Library, page 61 (english and greek), Hesiod Theogony, line 160 (greek) Hesiod's Theogony: Origins of the Gods | PDF | Religion & Spirituality, line 160 (english)). I can't find where the idea of the weapon being made of flint comes from, is this an error? HYPERIAPATH (talk) 10:56, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi HYPERIAPATH. That is indeed curious. My best guess is that whoever wrote that part was looking at Evelyn-White's old translation, in which the line is rendered as: Forthwith she made the element of grey flint and shaped a great sickle. I don't know why Evelyn-White translated it in this way, given the word in the Greek text is ἀδάμαντος (which hardly seems liable to misinterpretation!). Every other translation of the passage I've looked at calls the sickle adamantine, as it seems do almost all secondary sources that discuss the myth. There are few exceptions (eg. this article), but all cite either no sources or only the Theogony itself; none reference the Greek word explicitly. Given all of this, I've removed the reference to flint in that sentence. – Michael Aurel (talk) 08:07, 26 July 2026 (UTC)