Nisus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.15

🌐 Also appears in: The Aeneid (as Nisus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Nisus)

Life events

Scylla betrayed Nisus by pulling out his fatal purple hair, and Minos drowned her afterward.(Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · 📍 Megara)
- With: Scylla Minos
- “Now Nisus perished through his daughter's treachery. For he had a purple hair on the middle of his head, and an oracle ran that when it was pulled out he should die; and his daughter Scylla fell in love with Minos and pulled out the hair. But when Minos had made himself master of Megara, he tied the damsel by the feet to the stern of the ship and drowned her.”

parent: pandionsonofmetiadusa “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
siblings with Aegeus “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
child: Scylla “Now Nisus perished through his daughter's treachery.”
with Minos (interaction) “when Minos had made himself master of Megara”
parent: Pandion “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
enemies with Minos “he attacked Athens with a fleet and captured Megara, then ruled by king Nisus”
enemies with Megareus “he slew Megareus, son of Hippomenes, who had come from Onchestus to the help of Nisus.”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.