Scylla (daughter of Nisus)

Also known as: Scylla · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.15

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.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.15

• 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”

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