Strophades

STRO´PHADES(Στροφάδες: Eth. Στροφαδεύς: Strofadiaand Strivali), formerly called Plotae (Πλωταί), two small islands in the Ionian sea, about 35 miles S. of Zacynthus, and 400 stadia distant from Cyparissia in Messenia, to which city they belonged. The sons of Boreas pursued the Harpies to these islands, which were called the Turningislands, because the Boreadae here returned from the pursuit. (Strab. 8. p. 359; Ptol. 3.16.23; Steph. B. s. v.;Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 19; Mela, 2.7; Apollon. 2.296; Apollod. 1.9.21; Verg. A. 3.210; It. Ant. p. 523.)