Harpe

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Statistics Harpe (Dagger) All Races DMG: 35 Delay: 210 Lv. 68 WAR / THF Damage Per Second: 10.0 TP Per Hit: 5.7%	Other Uses Resale Price: ???~??? gil
Synthesis Recipes None	Used in Recipes None
Desynthesis Recipe None	Obtained From Desynthesis None

How to Obtain

Auction House Category: Weapons > Daggers (

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Dropped From

Name	Level	Zone
Citipati (NM)	67-70	Attohwa Chasm

Historical Background

The Harpe was a type of sword mentioned in Ancient Greek and Latin sources, almost always in mythological contexts. Most notably it was the sword used by Perseus to decapitate the Medusa, and by Zeus to castrate Cronus. In Greek and Roman art it is variously depicted, but it seems that originally it was a khopesh-like sickle-sword.

edit: Zeus didn't castrate Cronos. Cronos castrated his father Uranus with a flint sickle. Uranus was the sky and Cronos' mother was the earth. Basically... the sky was always copulating with the earth and would not let his children be born. So Cronos' made a sickle from the bones of the earth and castrated Uranus so that he and his siblings could leave their mothers womb.