Scylla
First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 34
After Minos took Nisæa and Megara through Scylla’s treason, he refused to marry her despite having promised. He ordered the Cretans to throw her overboard, and the tide carried her dead body to Scyllæum, the promontory named for her, daughter of Nisus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Minos conquered Nisæa and Megara through Scylla’s treason.(Book 2 · Chapter 34)
- Minos refused to marry Scylla despite having promised her marriage.(Book 2 · Chapter 34)
- With: Minos
- “For after Minos took Nisæa and Megara through her treason, he refused to marry her though he had promised, and even ordered the Cretans to throw her overboard, and the tide washed her dead body on to this promontory.”
- Scylla was thrown overboard and died, with the tide carrying her body to Scyllæum.(Book 2 · Chapter 34 · 📍 Scyllæum)
- With: Minos
- “For after Minos took Nisæa and Megara through her treason, he refused to marry her though he had promised, and even ordered the Cretans to throw her overboard, and the tide washed her dead body on to this promontory.”
Book 2 · Chapter 34
- parent: Nisus “the promontory called Scyllæum from Scylla, the daughter of Nisus”
- courtship with Minos “after Minos took Nisæa and Megara through her treason, he refused to marry her though he had promised”
- with Minos (Scylla's treason against Minos.) “after Minos took Nisæa and Megara through her treason”
- with Minos (Minos ordered Scylla to be thrown overboard.) “and even ordered the Cretans to throw her overboard”
- with Nisus (Scylla's treason enabled Minos to take Nisæa and Megara.) “For after Minos took Nisæa and Megara through her treason, he refused to marry her though he had promised”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.