Scylla (daughter of Nisus)
Also known as: Scylla · Family: Megara · Role: princess · First appears: Fable 70
Life events
- Scylla cuts off Nisus’s fatal lock and gives it to Minos.(Fable70)
- Minos rejects Scylla’s gift and forbids her from entering Crete.(Fable70 · 📍 Crete)
- With: Minos
- “Minos refuses it, {thus} held out; and shocked at the thought of so unheard of a crime, he says, “May the Gods, O thou reproach of our age, banish thee from their universe;”
- Scylla leaps into the sea and follows Minos’s departing fleet.(Fable70)
- With: Minos
- “Scarce has she said {this, when} she leaps into the waves, and follows the ships, Cupid giving her strength,”
- Nisus is transformed into a sea eagle and attacks Scylla.(Fable70)
- With: Nisus
- “When her father beholds her, (for now he is hovering in the air, and he has lately been made a sea eagle, with tawny wings), he is going to tear her in pieces with his crooked beak.”
- Scylla is transformed into a bird called Ciris.(Fable70)
- With: Ciris
- “With feathers, being changed into a bird, she is called Ciris;”
Fable 70
- parent: Nisus “The daughter of Nisus was wont often to go up thither, and to strike the resounding stones with a little pebble, when it was a time of peace.”
- courtship with Minos “’Twas love that urged the deed. I {am} Scylla, the royal issue of Nisus; to thee do I deliver the fortunes of my country and my own, {as well}; I ask for no reward, but thyself. Take this purple lock, as a pledge of my love;”
- with Cupid (Cupid gives Scylla strength to follow Minos's ships.) “Scarce has she said {this, when} she leaps into the waves, and follows the ships, Cupid giving her strength, and she hangs, an unwelcome companion, to the Gnossian ship.”
- with Ciris (Scylla is transformed into the bird called Ciris.) “With feathers, being changed into a bird, she is called Ciris;[11] and this name does she obtain from cutting off the lock.”
- admired: Minos “I grieve that Minos is the enemy of the person who loves him”
- enemies with Minos “I grieve that Minos is the enemy of the person who loves him”
- with Minos (interaction) “’Twas love that urged the deed. I {am} Scylla, the royal issue of Nisus; to thee do I deliver the fortunes of my country and my own, {as well}; I ask for no reward, but thyself.”
- with Minos (interaction) “Minos refuses it, {thus} held out; and shocked at the thought of so unheard of a crime”
- with Nisus (interaction) “the daughter despoils the father of his fatal lock”
- with Nisus (interaction) “When her father beholds her, (for now he is hovering in the air, and he has lately been made a sea eagle, with tawny wings), he is going to tear her in pieces with his crooked beak.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.