Nisus

Family: Megara · Role: king · First appears: Fable 70

Life events

Scylla cuts off Nisus’s fatal lock and gives it to Minos.(Fable70)
- With: Scylla (daughter of Nisus) Minos
- “the daughter despoils the father of his fatal lock, and having got the prize of crime, carries with her the spoil of her impiety;”
Nisus is transformed into a sea eagle and attacks Scylla.(Fable70)
- With: Scylla (daughter of 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.”

child: Scylla (daughter of 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.”
enemies with Minos “In the meantime Minos is laying waste the Lelegeian coasts,[3] and previously tries the strength of his arms against the city Alcathoë, which Nisus had;”
with Ciris (Nisus, transformed into a sea eagle, attacks his transformed daughter.) “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.”
with Scylla (daughter of Nisus) (interaction) “the daughter despoils the father of his fatal lock”
with Scylla (daughter of 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.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.