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Harpageia

τὰ Ἁρπαγεῖα

Harpageia (τὰ Ἁρπαγεῖα), a district between Priapus and Cyzicus, about the mouth of the river Granicus in Mysia, whence Ganymede is said to have been carried off. (Strab. xiii. p.587.) Thucydides (8.107) also mentions a town Harpagion (Ἁρπάγιον), which is otherwise unknown. (Comp. Steph. B. sub voce Ἁρπάγια.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.