phineus was even better-traveled than his sister europa, and his biography in the "catalogue" was apparently a ""pièce de résistance"" meant to conclude the geographically diverse inachid stemma with an appropriate flourish. he ruled in thrace, but was kidnapped by the harpies. zetes and calais, the boreads, pursued the tormentors and tormented to the ends of the earth. the poet catalogued many far-flung and remarkable races encountered during the chase, including: the katoudaioi ("subterranean men"), pygmies, melanes ("black men"), aethiopians, libyans, "horse-milking" scythians, hemikynes ("half-dogs") and the makrokephaloi, as well as griffins. ephorus called the episode the "gês períodos" (, "journey around the world"), and it was once thought that this title referred to an independent work, one erroneously attributed to hesiod. this view was disproved conclusively in 1911 with the publication of an extensive papyrus fragment ("pictured") of the episode which derived from the same bookroll that contained the myth of europa described above.