Scylla

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.15

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Scylla) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Scylla)

Life events

Scylla betrayed Nisus by pulling out his fatal purple hair, and Minos drowned her afterward.(Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · 📍 Megara)
- With: Nisus 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.”
Scylla seized and devoured six of Odysseus’s comrades during the voyage.(Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 cliff of Scylla)
- With: Odysseus
- “But Scylla appeared, snatched six of his comrades, and gobbled them up.”

with Minos (interaction) “he tied the damsel by the feet to the stern of the ship and drowned her”
parent: Nisus “Now Nisus perished through his daughter's treachery.”
admirer: Minos “Scylla fell in love with Minos”

parent: Crataeis (parent->child) “Scylla, a daughter of Crataeis and Trienus or Phorcus”
parent: Trienus (parent->child; genealogy is presented as an alternative.) “Scylla, a daughter of Crataeis and Trienus or Phorcus”
parent: Phorcys (parent->child; Phorcus is mapped to roster canonical Phorcys.) “Scylla, a daughter of Crataeis and Trienus or Phorcus”

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