Scylla (daughter of Cratæis)

Also known as: Scylla · Family: sea nymphs · Role: sea monster · First appears: Fable 62

Life events

• Scylla rejects Glaucus, leaving him enraged by her repulse.(Fable101)
  • With: Glaucus
  • “As he was saying such things as these, and about to say still more, Scylla left the God. He was enraged, and, provoked at the repulse,”
• Glaucus refuses Circe, declaring that his affection for Scylla will not change.(Fable102)
  • With: Glaucus Circe
  • “Sooner shall foliage grow in the ocean, and {sooner} shall sea-weed spring up on the tops of the mountains, than my affections shall change, while Scylla is alive.”
• Circe poisons Scylla’s bathing retreat with enchanted herbs, transforming her body into a monster.(Fable102)
  • With: Circe Hecate
  • “This the Goddess infects beforehand, and pollutes it with monster-breeding drugs; on it she sprinkles the juices distilled from the noxious root”
• Scylla takes revenge on Circe by depriving Ulysses of his companions.(Fable102)
  • With: Ulysses
  • “Scylla remained on that spot; and, at the first moment that an opportunity was given, in her hatred of Circe, she deprived Ulysses of his companions.”
• Scylla is transformed into a rock before she can overwhelm the Trojan ships.(Fable102)
  • “Soon after, the same {Scylla} would have overwhelmed the Trojan ships, had she not been first transformed into a rock”

Fable 62

• with Medea (Medea contemplates the danger posed by Scylla.) “and how that Scylla, begirt with furious dogs, is said to bark in the Sicilian deep?”

Fable 100

• parent: Cratæis “In these words did the Nereid reply to the daughter of Cratæis”
• with Galatea (Scylla comforts Galatea.) “When, with her fingers like marble, the maiden had wiped these away, and had comforted the Goddess”
• friends with Galatea “‘Tell me, dearest,’ said she, ‘and conceal not {from me} ({for} I am true to thee) the cause of thy grief.’”

Fable 101

• admirer: Glaucus “Scylla returns, (for, in truth, she does not trust herself in the midst of the ocean) and either wanders about without garments on the thirsty sand, or, when she is tired, having lighted upon some lonely recess of the sea, cools her limbs in the enclosed waves. {When}, lo! cleaving the deep, Glaucus comes, a new-made inhabitant of the deep sea, his limbs having been lately transformed at Anthedon,[78] near Eubœa; and he lingers from passion for the maiden {now} seen, and utters whatever words he thinks may detain her as she flies.”

Fable 102

• admirer: Glaucus “I am ashamed to recount my promises, my entreaties, my caresses, and my rejected suit.”
• enemies with Circe “Scylla remained on that spot; and, at the first moment that an opportunity was given, in her hatred of Circe, she deprived Ulysses of his companions.”
• with Ulysses (Scylla deprives Ulysses of his companions.) “Scylla remained on that spot; and, at the first moment that an opportunity was given, in her hatred of Circe, she deprived Ulysses of his companions.”
• courtship with Glaucus “I am ashamed to recount my promises, my entreaties, my caresses, and my rejected suit.”

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