Strophades
Στροφάδες
Strophades (Στροφάδες: Eth. Στροφαδεύς: Strofadia and 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 Turning
islands, because the Boreadae here returned from the pursuit. (Strab. viii. p.359; Ptol. 3.16.23; Steph. B. sub voce Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 19; Mela, 2.7; Apollon. 2.296; Apollod. 1.9.21; Verg. A. 3.210; It. Ant. p. 523.)
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.