- Scylla - Mythopedia
Scylla was a multi-headed, hybrid monster who haunted a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool Charybdis With her darting heads and sharp teeth, Scylla would pick off unwary sea creatures or sailors who passed too close
- Charybdis - Mythopedia
After telling of Scylla—a monster with the torso of a human female, twelve feet, and six long heads ending in six toothy mouths—Circe introduces Charybdis: But the other cliff [opposite Scylla], thou wilt note, Odysseus, is lower—they are close to each other; thou couldst even shoot an arrow across—and on it is a great fig tree with
- Odyssey: Book 12 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Argument The Sirene, Scylla, and Charybdis He relates how, after his return from the shades, he was sent by Circe on his voyage, by the coast of the Sirens, and by the strait of Scylla and Charybdis: the manner in which he escaped those dangers: how, being cast on the island Trinacria, his companions destroyed the oxen of the Sun: the vengeance that followed; how all perished by shipwreck
- Odysseus – Mythopedia
Odysseus then passed between the many-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, two creatures who inhabited opposite sides of a narrow strait Following Circe’s advice, Odysseus steered close to Scylla, knowing that while she would devour six of his men (one for each of her mouths), Charybdis would swallow the whole ship and all of
- Metamorphoses: Book 8 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
At Scylla’s head his horny bill he aims; She, fearful of the blow, the ship disclaims, Quitting her hold: and yet she fell not far, But wond’ring, finds her self sustain’d in air Chang’d to a lark, she mottled pinions shook, And, from the ravish’d lock, the name of Ciris took
- Phorcys - Mythopedia
Apollonius of Rhodes made him the father of Scylla, a sea monster whom Phorcys brought back to life (in one account) after she was slain by Heracles Finally, one tradition—mentioned only by an early commentator, who does not identify their source—made Phorcys the father of the Hesperides Popular Culture
- Metamorphoses: Book 14 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Against Messena, on th’ Ausonian coast, I Scylla view’d, and from that hour was lost In tend’rest sounds I su’d; but still the fair Was deaf to vows, and pityless to pray’r If numbers can avail, exert their pow’r; Or energy of plants, if plants have more I ask no cure; let but the virgin pine With dying pangs, or agonies, like mine
- Creature Names - Mythopedia
Creature names: Origin, structure, and meaning From the three-headed dragons of Greek myth to creepy crawlies, the world of fantasy creatures is an endless abundance of mystery
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