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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escila" title="Escila – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Escila" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0_(%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F)" title="Скилла (мифология) – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Скилла (мифология)" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla" title="Scylla – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Scylla" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Сцила – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сцила" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skila" title="Skila – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Skila" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla_(euzhvil)" title="Skylla (euzhvil) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Skylla (euzhvil)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escil%C2%B7la_(filla_de_Forcis)" title="Escil·la (filla de Forcis) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Escil·la (filla de Forcis)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilla" title="Scilla – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Scilla" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BA%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1" title="Σκύλλα – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σκύλλα" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escila" title="Escila – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Escila" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilo" title="Skilo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Skilo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7" title="اسکیلا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اسکیلا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_(monstre)" title="Scylla (monstre) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Scylla (monstre)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%82%AC%EB%9D%BC" title="스킬라 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스킬라" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skila" title="Skila – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Skila" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilla" title="Skilla – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Skilla" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilla_(mostro)" title="Scilla (mostro) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Scilla (mostro)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90" title="სკილა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სკილა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk%C3%AEla" title="Skîla – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Skîla" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla" title="Scylla – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Scylla" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scil%C4%97" title="Scilė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Scilė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szk%C3%BClla_(Phork%C3%BCsz_le%C3%A1nya)" title="Szkülla (Phorküsz leánya) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Szkülla (Phorküsz leánya)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Сцила – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Сцила" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla" title="Scylla – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Scylla" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_(nimf)" title="Scylla (nimf) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Scylla (nimf)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9" title="スキュラ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スキュラ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cila" title="Cila – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Cila" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scila" title="Scila – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Scila" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0" title="Сцилла – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Сцилла" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla" title="Scylla – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Scylla" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scila_(po%C5%A1ast)" title="Scila (pošast) – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Scila (pošast)" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scila" title="Scila – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Scila" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skila" title="Skila – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Skila" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylla" title="Skylla – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Skylla" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE" title="இசுகைல்லா – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="இசுகைல்லா" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B2" title="ซีลา – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ซีลา" data-language-autonym="ไทย" 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other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Scylla_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Scylla (disambiguation)">Scylla (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scylla_Louvre_CA1341.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Scylla_Louvre_CA1341.jpg/220px-Scylla_Louvre_CA1341.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Scylla_Louvre_CA1341.jpg/330px-Scylla_Louvre_CA1341.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Scylla_Louvre_CA1341.jpg/440px-Scylla_Louvre_CA1341.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="1120" /></a><figcaption>Scylla as a maiden with a <a href="/wiki/Cetus_(mythology)" title="Cetus (mythology)"><i>kētos</i></a> tail and dog heads sprouting from her body. Detail from a red-figure bell-crater in the Louvre, 450–425 BC. This form of Scylla was prevalent in ancient depictions, though very different from the description in Homer, where she is land-based and more <a href="/wiki/Dragons_in_Greek_mythology" title="Dragons in Greek mythology">dragon</a>-like.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden2013132_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden2013132-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, <b>Scylla</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">SIL</span>-ə</i></a>; <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248666159">.mw-parser-output .tfd-dated{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .tfd-default{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);clear:both;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tfd-tiny{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tfd-inline{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);text-align:center;position:relative}@media(min-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{clear:right;float:right;width:22em}}</style><span class="tfd tfd-dated tfd-tiny"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc"><span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BA%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:Σκύλλα">Σκύλλα</a></span></span></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">translit.</a></small> <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn"><i>Skýlla</i></i></span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="el-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek">[skýlːa]</a></span>) is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster <a href="/wiki/Charybdis" title="Charybdis">Charybdis</a>. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid the whirlpools of Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa. </p><p>Scylla is first attested in <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i>, where <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a> and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels. Later myth provides an origin story as a beautiful nymph who gets turned into a monster.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden2013130–131_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden2013130–131-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Book Three of <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> associates the strait where Scylla dwells with the <a href="/wiki/Strait_of_Messina" title="Strait of Messina">Strait of Messina</a> between <a href="/wiki/Calabria" title="Calabria">Calabria</a>, a region of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Italy" title="Southern Italy">Southern Italy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>. The coastal town of <a href="/wiki/Scilla,_Calabria" title="Scilla, Calabria">Scilla</a> in Calabria takes its name from the mythological figure of Scylla and it is said to be the home of the nymph. </p><p>The idiom "<a href="/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis" title="Between Scylla and Charybdis">between Scylla and Charybdis</a>" has come to mean being forced to choose between two similarly undesirable or risky outcomes, similar to "between a rock and a hard place".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parentage">Parentage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Parentage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Denarius_Sextus_Pompeius-Scilla.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Denarius_Sextus_Pompeius-Scilla.jpg/220px-Denarius_Sextus_Pompeius-Scilla.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Denarius_Sextus_Pompeius-Scilla.jpg/330px-Denarius_Sextus_Pompeius-Scilla.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Denarius_Sextus_Pompeius-Scilla.jpg 2x" data-file-width="379" data-file-height="186" /></a><figcaption>Scylla on the reverse of a first-century BC <a href="/wiki/Denarius" title="Denarius">denarius</a> minted by <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pompeius" class="mw-redirect" title="Sextus Pompeius">Sextus Pompeius</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The parentage of Scylla varies according to author.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a>, and a scholiast on Plato, all name <a href="/wiki/Crataeis" title="Crataeis">Crataeis</a> as the mother of Scylla.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Neither Homer nor Ovid mentions a father, but Apollodorus says that the father was either Trienus (probably a textual corruption of <a href="/wiki/Triton_(mythology)" title="Triton (mythology)">Triton</a>) or Phorcus (a variant of <a href="/wiki/Phorkys" class="mw-redirect" title="Phorkys">Phorkys</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, the Plato scholiast, perhaps following Apollodorus, gives the father as Tyrrhenus or Phorcus,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius</a> on Homer, <i>Odyssey</i> 12.85, gave the father as Triton, or <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> and Crateis as the parents.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other authors have <a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a> as Scylla's mother. The <a href="/wiki/Hesiodic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hesiodic">Hesiodic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Megalai_Ehoiai" title="Megalai Ehoiai">Megalai Ehoiai</a></i> gives Hecate and <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> as the parents of Scylla,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Acusilaus" title="Acusilaus">Acusilaus</a> says that Scylla's parents were Hecate and Phorkys (so also schol. <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> 12.85).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Perhaps trying to reconcile these conflicting accounts, <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius of Rhodes</a> says that Crataeis was another name for Hecate, and that she and Phorcys were the parents of Scylla.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likewise, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Semos_of_Delos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Semos of Delos (page does not exist)">Semos of Delos</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> says that Crataeis was the daughter of Hecate and Triton, and mother of Scylla by Deimos. <a href="/wiki/Stesichorus" title="Stesichorus">Stesichorus</a> (alone) names Lamia as the mother of Scylla, possibly the <a href="/wiki/Lamia_(daughter_of_Poseidon)" title="Lamia (daughter of Poseidon)">Lamia</a> who was the daughter of Poseidon,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while according to <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, Scylla was the offspring of <a href="/wiki/Typhon" title="Typhon">Typhon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Echidna_(mythology)" title="Echidna (mythology)">Echidna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Narratives">Narratives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Narratives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Castello_scilla.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Castello_scilla.jpg/220px-Castello_scilla.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Castello_scilla.jpg/330px-Castello_scilla.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Castello_scilla.jpg/440px-Castello_scilla.jpg 2x" data-file-width="782" data-file-height="481" /></a><figcaption>The Rock of <a href="/wiki/Scilla,_Calabria" title="Scilla, Calabria">Scilla, Calabria</a>, which is said to be the home of Scylla</figcaption></figure><p>According to <a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">John Tzetzes</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius'</a> commentary on the <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scylla was a beautiful <a href="/wiki/Naiad" title="Naiad">naiad</a> who was claimed by Poseidon, but the jealous <a href="/wiki/Nereid" class="mw-redirect" title="Nereid">Nereid</a> <a href="/wiki/Amphitrite" title="Amphitrite">Amphitrite</a> turned her into a terrible monster by poisoning the water of the spring where Scylla would bathe. </p><p>A similar story is found in <a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyginus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> according to whom Scylla was loved by <a href="/wiki/Glaucus" title="Glaucus">Glaucus</a>, but Glaucus himself was also loved by the goddess sorceress <a href="/wiki/Circe" title="Circe">Circe</a>. While Scylla was bathing in the sea, the jealous Circe poured a baleful potion into the sea water which caused Scylla to transform into a frightful monster with six dog forms springing from her thighs. In this form, she attacked Odysseus' ship, robbing him of his companions. </p><p>In a late Greek myth, recorded in <a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius</a>' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Heracles" title="Heracles">Heracles</a> encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her. Her father, the sea-god <a href="/wiki/Phorcys" title="Phorcys">Phorcys</a>, then applied flaming torches to her body and restored her to life. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Homer's_Odyssey"><span id="Homer.27s_Odyssey"></span>Homer's <i>Odyssey</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Homer's Odyssey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scylla_figurine.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Scylla_figurine.jpg/200px-Scylla_figurine.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Scylla_figurine.jpg/300px-Scylla_figurine.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Scylla_figurine.jpg/400px-Scylla_figurine.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2640" data-file-height="2842" /></a><figcaption> Scylla figurine, late 4th BCE. <a href="/wiki/National_Archaeological_Museum,_Athens" title="National Archaeological Museum, Athens">National Archaeological Museum, Athens</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In Homer's <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> XII, <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a> is advised by Circe to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship: "Hug Scylla's crag—sail on past her—top speed! Better by far to lose six men and keep your ship than lose your entire crew."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also tells Odysseus to ask Scylla's mother, the river nymph <a href="/wiki/Crataeis" title="Crataeis">Crataeis</a>, to prevent Scylla from pouncing more than once. Odysseus successfully navigates the strait, but when he and his crew are momentarily distracted by Charybdis, Scylla snatches six sailors off the deck and devours them alive. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>...they writhed<br /> gasping as Scylla swung them up her cliff and there<br /> at her cavern's mouth she bolted them down raw—<br /> screaming out, flinging their arms toward me,<br /> lost in that mortal struggle.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ovid's_Metamorphoses"><span id="Ovid.27s_Metamorphoses"></span>Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ovid's Metamorphoses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg/170px-Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg/255px-Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg/340px-Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2368" data-file-height="3239" /></a><figcaption><i>Glaucus and Scylla</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bartholomeus_Spranger" title="Bartholomeus Spranger">Bartholomeus Spranger</a> (c. 1581)</figcaption></figure> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the fisherman-turned-<a href="/wiki/Water_deity" class="mw-redirect" title="Water deity">sea god</a> Glaucus falls in love with the beautiful Scylla, but she is repulsed by his piscine form and flees to a <a href="/wiki/Promontory" title="Promontory">promontory</a> where he cannot follow. When Glaucus goes to Circe to request a love potion that will win Scylla's affections, the enchantress herself becomes enamored with him. Meeting with no success, Circe becomes hatefully jealous of her rival and therefore prepares a vial of poison and pours it into the sea pool where Scylla regularly bathed, transforming her into a thing of terror even to herself. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>In vain she offers from herself to run <br /> And drags about her what she strives to shun.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div></blockquote> <p>The story was later adapted into a five-act tragic opera, <i><a href="/wiki/Scylla_et_Glaucus" title="Scylla et Glaucus">Scylla et Glaucus</a></i> (1746), by the French composer <a href="/wiki/Jean-Marie_Leclair" title="Jean-Marie Leclair">Jean-Marie Leclair</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Keats'_Endymion"><span id="Keats.27_Endymion"></span>Keats' <i>Endymion</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Keats' Endymion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a>' loose retelling of Ovid's version of the myth of Scylla and Glaucus in Book 3 of <a href="/wiki/Endymion_(poem)" title="Endymion (poem)"><i>Endymion</i></a> (1818), the evil Circe does not transform Scylla into a monster but merely murders the beautiful nymph. Glaucus then takes her corpse to a crystal palace at the bottom of the ocean where lie the bodies of all lovers who have died at sea. After a thousand years, she is resurrected by <a href="/wiki/Endymion_(mythology)" title="Endymion (mythology)">Endymion</a> and reunited with Glaucus.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Paintings">Paintings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Paintings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner,_%E2%80%98Glaucus_and_Scylla%E2%80%99,_1841.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner%2C_%E2%80%98Glaucus_and_Scylla%E2%80%99%2C_1841.jpg/170px-Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner%2C_%E2%80%98Glaucus_and_Scylla%E2%80%99%2C_1841.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner%2C_%E2%80%98Glaucus_and_Scylla%E2%80%99%2C_1841.jpg/255px-Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner%2C_%E2%80%98Glaucus_and_Scylla%E2%80%99%2C_1841.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner%2C_%E2%80%98Glaucus_and_Scylla%E2%80%99%2C_1841.jpg/340px-Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner%2C_%E2%80%98Glaucus_and_Scylla%E2%80%99%2C_1841.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="606" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" title="J. M. W. Turner">J. M. W. Turner</a>'s painting of Scylla fleeing inland from the advances of Glaucus (1841)</figcaption></figure> <p>At the Carolingian <a href="/wiki/Abbey_of_Corvey" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbey of Corvey">abbey of Corvey</a> in Westphalia, a unique ninth-century wall painting depicts, among other things, Odysseus' fight with Scylla.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This illustration is not noted elsewhere in medieval arts.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> and after, it was the story of Glaucus and Scylla that caught the imagination of painters across Europe. In <a href="/wiki/Agostino_Carracci" title="Agostino Carracci">Agostino Carracci</a>'s 1597 fresco cycle of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Loves_of_the_Gods" title="The Loves of the Gods">The Loves of the Gods</a></i> in the <a href="/wiki/Farnese_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Farnese Gallery">Farnese Gallery</a>, the two are shown embracing, a conjunction that is not sanctioned by the myth.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More orthodox versions show the maiden scrambling away from the amorous arms of the god, as in the <a href="/wiki/Oil_on_copper" title="Oil on copper">oil on copper</a> painting of <a href="/wiki/Fillipo_Lauri" class="mw-redirect" title="Fillipo Lauri">Fillipo Lauri</a><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the oil on canvas by <a href="/wiki/Salvator_Rosa" title="Salvator Rosa">Salvator Rosa</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Caen" title="Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen">Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other painters picture them divided by their respective elements of land and water, as in the paintings of the Flemish <a href="/wiki/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger" class="mw-redirect" title="Bartholomäus Spranger">Bartholomäus Spranger</a> (1587), now in the <a href="/wiki/Kunsthistorisches_Museum" title="Kunsthistorisches Museum">Kunsthistorisches Museum</a>, Vienna.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some add the detail of <a href="/wiki/Cupid" title="Cupid">Cupid</a> aiming at the sea-god with his bow, as in the painting of <a href="/wiki/Laurent_de_la_Hyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurent de la Hyre">Laurent de la Hyre</a> (1640/4) in the <a href="/wiki/J._Paul_Getty_Museum" title="J. Paul Getty Museum">J. Paul Getty Museum</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that of <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Dumont_le_Romain" title="Jacques Dumont le Romain">Jacques Dumont le Romain</a> (1726) at the <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_des_beaux-arts_de_Troyes" title="Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes">Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two cupids can also be seen fluttering around the fleeing Scylla in the late painting of the scene by J. M. W. Turner (1841), now in the <a href="/wiki/Kimbell_Art_Museum" title="Kimbell Art Museum">Kimbell Art Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens" title="Peter Paul Rubens">Peter Paul Rubens</a> shows the moment when the horrified Scylla first begins to change, under the gaze of Glaucus (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1636</span>),<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Eglon_van_der_Neer" title="Eglon van der Neer">Eglon van der Neer</a>'s 1695 painting in the <a href="/wiki/Rijksmuseum" title="Rijksmuseum">Rijksmuseum</a> shows Circe poisoning the water as Scylla prepares to bathe.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are also two <a href="/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Raphaelite">Pre-Raphaelite</a> treatments of the latter scene by <a href="/wiki/John_Melhuish_Strudwick" title="John Melhuish Strudwick">John Melhuish Strudwick</a> (1886)<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse" title="John William Waterhouse">John William Waterhouse</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Circe_Invidiosa" title="Circe Invidiosa">Circe Invidiosa</a></i>, 1892).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_November_12#Template:Lang-grc-gre" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 November 12">‹See Tfd›</a></span><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Σκύλλη</span></span>) is obsolete.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="/wiki/File:Corvey_-_Odysseus_%2B_Scylla_%2B_Charybdis.jpg" title="File:Corvey - Odysseus + Scylla + Charybdis.jpg">via Wikimedia</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/File:Glaucus_and_Scylla_-_Agostino_Carracci_-_1597_-_Farnese_Gallery,_Rome.jpg" title="File:Glaucus and Scylla - Agostino Carracci - 1597 - Farnese Gallery, Rome.jpg">at Wikimedia</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.magnoliabox.com/art/391086/Glaucus_and_Scylla">Magnoliabox</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140322014348/http://www.magnoliabox.com/art/391086/Glaucus_and_Scylla">Archived</a> 2014-03-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">View on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/R/rosa_salvator/0492-0201_glaucus_and_scylla.jpg">Reproarte site</a>; a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/renzodionigi/3624763164">preliminary drawing</a> in MFA Boston is dated 1661</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Available in <a href="/wiki/File:Bartholom%C3%A4us_Spranger_006.jpg" title="File:Bartholomäus Spranger 006.jpg">at Wikimedia</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">View on the museum website<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There is a more conventional print from around 1810/15 in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-glaucus-and-scylla-a01150">Tate Gallery</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">View on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/renzodionigi/3623947737/sizes/o">Flickr</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden2013132-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden2013132_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOgden2013">Ogden (2013)</a>, p. 132.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEOgden2013130–131-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOgden2013130–131_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOgden2013">Ogden (2013)</a>, pp. 130–131.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFVirgil2007" class="citation book cs1">Virgil (2007). <span class="id-lock-limited" title="Free access subject to limited trial, subscription normally required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidoxfordworl00virg"><i>Aeneid</i></a></span>. Translated by Ahl, Frederick. Oxford University Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidoxfordworl00virg/page/n92">67</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-283206-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-283206-1"><bdi>978-0-19-283206-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Aeneid&rft.pages=67&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-19-283206-1&rft.au=Virgil&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Faeneidoxfordworl00virg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUrdang1988" class="citation book cs1">Urdang, Laurence (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/wholeballofwaxot00urda/mode/2up"><i>The whole ball of wax and other colloquial phrases : what they mean [and] how they started</i></a>. Internet Archive. New York : Perigee Books. p. 22. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-399-51436-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-399-51436-4"><bdi>978-0-399-51436-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+whole+ball+of+wax+and+other+colloquial+phrases+%3A+what+they+mean+%5Band%5D+how+they+started&rft.pages=22&rft.pub=New+York+%3A+Perigee+Books&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=978-0-399-51436-4&rft.aulast=Urdang&rft.aufirst=Laurence&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwholeballofwaxot00urda%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCharles_Earle_Funk1948" class="citation book cs1">Charles Earle Funk, Liitt D. (1948). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/hogoniceothercur0000char/mode/2up"><i>A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions</i></a>. Internet Archive. Harper & Row. p. 50.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Hog+on+Ice+and+Other+Curious+Expressions&rft.pages=50&rft.pub=Harper+%26+Row&rft.date=1948&rft.aulast=Charles+Earle+Funk&rft.aufirst=Liitt+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhogoniceothercur0000char%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For discussions of the parentage of Scylla, see Fowler, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32">p. 32</a>, Ogden, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA134">134</a>–<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA135">135</a>; Gantz, pp. 731–732; and Frazer's note 3 to Apollodorus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.7.20">E.7.20</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=0C3862DF72BDE338E6D62A24A49FEF27?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D12%3Acard%3D111">12.124–125</a>; <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D13%3Acard%3D705">13.749</a>; <a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.7.20">E7.20</a>; <a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a> on <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> 3.420; schol. on <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">Republic</a> 9.588c.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ogden, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA135">p. 135</a>; Gantz, p. 731; Frazer's note 3 to Apollodorus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.7.20">E.7.20</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fowler, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32">p. 32</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius</a> on Homer, p. 1714</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hesiod <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www-loebclassics-com.ezproxy.bu.edu/view/hesiod-other_fragments/2018/pb_LCL503.311.xml">fr. 200 Most</a> [= fr. 262 MW] (Most, pp. 310, 311).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Acusilaus" title="Acusilaus">Acusilaus</a>. fr. 42 Fowler (Fowler, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32">p. 32</a>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius of Rhodes</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/350/mode/2up">4. 828–829 (pp. 350–351)</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>FGrHist</i> 396 F 22</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stesichorus" title="Stesichorus">Stesichorus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.loebclassics.com/view/stesichorus_i-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.133.xml?result=1&rskey=vkJkZt">F220 <i>PMG</i> (Campbell, pp. 132–133)</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <i>Fabulae</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206#p.35">Preface</a> & <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206#151">151</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">ad <a href="/wiki/Lycophron" title="Lycophron">Lycophron</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/860#45">45</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Servius on <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> III. 420.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulae" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabulae">Fabulae</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206#199">199</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">ad Lycophron, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/860#45">45</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Fagles" title="Robert Fagles">Robert Fagles</a>, <i>The Odyssey</i> 1996, XII.119ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fagles 1996 XII.275–79.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ovid, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> xiii. 732ff., 905; xiv. 40ff.; translation by Nicholas Rowe and Samuel Garth is in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=j24VAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ovid%20%20%22Glaucus%20and%20Scylla%22&pg=PA121">GoogleBooks</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ovid, <i>Metamorphoses</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=j24VAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ovid%20%20%22Glaucus%20and%20Scylla%22&pg=PA124">xiv.51–2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24280/24280-h/24280-h.htm"><i>Endymion Book III</i></a>, line 401ff – via Project Gutenberg</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Endymion+Book+III&rft.pages=line+401ff&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Ffiles%2F24280%2F24280-h%2F24280-h.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1366/">"UNESCO: Corvey Abbey and Castle"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=UNESCO%3A+Corvey+Abbey+and+Castle&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwhc.unesco.org%2Fen%2Ftentativelists%2F1366%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/728/laurent-de-la-hyre-glaucus-and-scylla-french-about-1640-1644/">"Glaucus and Scylla"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Glaucus+and+Scylla&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getty.edu%2Fart%2Fcollection%2Fobjects%2F728%2Flaurent-de-la-hyre-glaucus-and-scylla-french-about-1640-1644%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">View on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/34326717@N03/3261056474/sizes/m">Flickr</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Musée Bonat, available in <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_Scylla_et_Glaucus.JPG" class="extiw" title="nl:Bestand:Peter Paul Rubens - Scylla et Glaucus.JPG">at Wikimedia</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">View on <a href="/wiki/File:John_Melhuish_Strudwick22.jpg" title="File:John Melhuish Strudwick22.jpg">Wikimedia</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Available on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/circe-invidiosa-1892">website</a> devoted to the artist</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_and_cited_references">General and cited references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scylla&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: General and cited references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <i>Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes.</i> Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=C431BA809CA4DEA22A15DA9C666F3400?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0022%3atext%3dLibrary">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFApollonius_Rhodius1912" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Rhodes" title="Apollonius of Rhodes">Apollonius Rhodius</a> (1912), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/n5/mode/2up"><i>The Argonautica</i></a>, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (trans 1912 ed.), W. Heinemann – via Internet Archive</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Argonautica&rft.edition=trans+1912&rft.pub=W.+Heinemann&rft.date=1912&rft.au=Apollonius+Rhodius&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fargonautica00apoluoft%23page%2Fn5%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Campbell, David A., <i>Greek Lyric III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others</i>, Harvard University Press, 1991. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0674995253" title="Special:BookSources/978-0674995253">978-0674995253</a>.</li> <li>Fowler, R. L., <i>Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary</i>, Oxford University Press, 2013. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198147411" title="Special:BookSources/978-0198147411">978-0198147411</a>.</li> <li>Gantz, Timothy, <i>Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources</i>, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5360-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5360-9">978-0-8018-5360-9</a> (Vol. 1), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5362-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5362-3">978-0-8018-5362-3</a> (Vol. 2).</li> <li>Hanfmann, George M. A., "The Scylla of Corvey and Her Ancestors" <i>Dumbarton Oaks Papers</i> <b>41</b> "Studies on Art and Archeology in Honor of Ernst Kitzinger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1987), pp. 249–260.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus, Gaius Julius</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulae" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabulae">Fabulae</a></i>, in <i>The Myths of</i> Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206">Online version at ToposText</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_W._Most" title="Glenn W. Most">Most, G.W.</a>, <i>Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments</i>, <a href="/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library" title="Loeb Classical Library">Loeb Classical Library</a>, No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>, 2007, 2018. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-99721-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-674-99721-9">978-0-674-99721-9</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL503/2018/volume.xml">Online version at Harvard University Press</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOgden2013" class="citation book cs1">Ogden, Daniel (2013). <i>Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199557325" title="Special:BookSources/9780199557325"><bdi>9780199557325</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Drakon%3A+Dragon+Myth+and+Serpent+Cult+in+the+Greek+and+Roman+Worlds&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=9780199557325&rft.aulast=Ogden&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stesichorus" title="Stesichorus">Stesichorus</a>, in <i>Greek Lyric, Volume III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others</i>. Edited and translated by David A. Campbell. <a href="/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library" title="Loeb Classical Library">Loeb Classical Library</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL476/1991/volume.xml">476</a>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, <i>Aeneid</i>. 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Theoi Project.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Skylla&rft.pub=Theoi+Project&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theoi.com%2FPontios%2FSkylla.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScylla" class="Z3988"></span> – references in classical literature and ancient art.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110928040613/http://www.lessing-photo.com/search.asp?a=1&kc=2020202053F6&kw=ODYSSEE%3ASCYLLA&p=1&ipp">"Images of Scylla on Classical artefacts (Archive.org link)"</a>. 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title="Procne">Procne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhexenor" title="Rhexenor">Rhexenor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schoeneus" title="Schoeneus">Schoeneus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scylla_(daughter_of_Nisus)" title="Scylla (daughter of Nisus)">Scylla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tereus" title="Tereus">Tereus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timandra_(mother_of_Neophron)" title="Timandra (mother of Neophron)">Timandra</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#cef2e0;">Non-avian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abas_(mythology)" title="Abas (mythology)">Abas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Actaeon" title="Actaeon">Actaeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arachne" title="Arachne">Arachne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arcas" title="Arcas">Arcas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arge" title="Arge">Arge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristaeus_(Giant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aristaeus (Giant)">Aristaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ascalabus" title="Ascalabus">Ascalabus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atalanta" title="Atalanta">Atalanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadmus" title="Cadmus">Cadmus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calchus" title="Calchus">Calchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callisto_(mythology)" title="Callisto (mythology)">Callisto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cephissus_(mythology)" title="Cephissus (mythology)">Cephissus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerambus" title="Cerambus">Cerambus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cercopes" title="Cercopes">Cercopes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeus_and_the_Tortoise" title="Zeus and the Tortoise">Chelone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circe" title="Circe">Circe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korybantes" title="Korybantes">Curetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynosura_(nymph)" title="Cynosura (nymph)">Cynosura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galanthis" title="Galanthis">Galanthis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gale_(mythology)" title="Gale (mythology)">Gale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmonia" title="Harmonia">Harmonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hecuba" title="Hecuba">Hecuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helice_(mythology)" title="Helice (mythology)">Helice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippomenes" title="Hippomenes">Hippomenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Io_(mythology)" title="Io (mythology)">Io</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycaon_(king_of_Arcadia)" title="Lycaon (king of Arcadia)">Lycaon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycian_peasants" title="Lycian peasants">Lycian peasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyncus" title="Lyncus">Lyncus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melanippe" title="Melanippe">Melanippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euphorion_(mythology)" title="Euphorion (mythology)">Melian nymphs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melissa" title="Melissa">Melissa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minyades" title="Minyades">Minyades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myia_(mythology)" title="Myia (mythology)">Myia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrmex_(Attic_woman)" title="Myrmex (Attic woman)">Myrmex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Na%C3%AFs_(mythology)" title="Naïs (mythology)">Naïs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nerites_(mythology)" title="Nerites (mythology)">Nerites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocyrhoe" title="Ocyrhoe">Ocyrhoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pentheus" title="Pentheus">Pentheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phalanx_(mythology)" title="Phalanx (mythology)">Phalanx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phineus" title="Phineus">Phineus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenice_(mythology)" title="Phoenice (mythology)">Phoenice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pompilus_(mythology)" title="Pompilus (mythology)">Pompilus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taygete" title="Taygete">Taygete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophane" title="Theophane">Theophane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titanis_(mythology)" title="Titanis (mythology)">Titanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithonus" title="Tithonus">Tithonus</a></li> <li>Tyrrhenian pirates <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aethalides_(mythology)" title="Aethalides (mythology)">Aethalides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcimedon" title="Alcimedon">Alcimedon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dictys" title="Dictys">Dictys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epopeus" title="Epopeus">Epopeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melas_(mythology)" title="Melas (mythology)">Melas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medon_(mythology)" title="Medon (mythology)">Medon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opheltes_(mythology)" title="Opheltes (mythology)">Opheltes</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="10" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pygmalion_(Raoux).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pygmalion and Galatea"><img alt="Pygmalion and Galatea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg/91px-Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="91" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg/137px-Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg/182px-Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1436" data-file-height="1898" /></a></span><br /><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_and_Daphne_(Bernini).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Apollo and Daphne"><img alt="Apollo and Daphne" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29.jpg/90px-Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29.jpg/135px-Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29.jpg/180px-Apollo_and_Daphne_%28Bernini%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5048" data-file-height="7800" /></a></span><br /><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Io_changed_into_a_cow,_Mercury_cuts_of_Argus%27s_head.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Io"><img alt="Io" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Io_changed_into_a_cow%2C_Mercury_cuts_of_Argus%27s_head.jpg/90px-Io_changed_into_a_cow%2C_Mercury_cuts_of_Argus%27s_head.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Io_changed_into_a_cow%2C_Mercury_cuts_of_Argus%27s_head.jpg/135px-Io_changed_into_a_cow%2C_Mercury_cuts_of_Argus%27s_head.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Io_changed_into_a_cow%2C_Mercury_cuts_of_Argus%27s_head.jpg/180px-Io_changed_into_a_cow%2C_Mercury_cuts_of_Argus%27s_head.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1913" data-file-height="2645" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Base appearance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Achilles_(son_of_Zeus)" title="Achilles (son of Zeus)">Achilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigone_of_Troy" title="Antigone of Troy">Antigone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charybdis" title="Charybdis">Charybdis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamia" title="Lamia">Lamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medusa" title="Medusa">Medusa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midas" title="Midas">Midas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe" title="Pyramus and Thisbe">Mulberry fruit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaon" title="Phaon">Phaon</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scylla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siren_(mythology)" title="Siren (mythology)">Sirens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycius_(son_of_Clinis)" title="Lycius (son of Clinis)">White raven</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Humanoids</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arne_(daughter_of_Aeolus)" title="Arne (daughter of Aeolus)">Arne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calliste_(mythology)" title="Calliste (mythology)">Calliste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cymodoce_(mythology)" title="Cymodoce (mythology)">Cymodoce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arcesius" title="Arcesius">Cephalus' wife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galatea_(mythology)" title="Galatea (mythology)">Galatea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leleges" title="Leleges">Leleges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrmidons" title="Myrmidons">Myrmidons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nephele" title="Nephele">Nephele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spartoi" class="mw-redirect" title="Spartoi">Spartoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Weasel_and_Aphrodite" title="The Weasel and Aphrodite">Weasel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Inanimate objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aconteus" title="Aconteus">Aconteus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aglaurus,_daughter_of_Cecrops" title="Aglaurus, daughter of Cecrops">Aglaurus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcmene" title="Alcmene">Alcmene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anaxarete" title="Anaxarete">Anaxarete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariadne" title="Ariadne">Ariadne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsino%C3%AB_of_Cyprus" title="Arsinoë of Cyprus">Arsinoë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aspalis" title="Aspalis">Aspalis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battus_(mythology)" title="Battus (mythology)">Battus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Britomartis" title="Britomartis">Britomartis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calydon_(son_of_Ares)" title="Calydon (son of Ares)">Calydon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cercopes" title="Cercopes">Cercopes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cragaleus" title="Cragaleus">Cragaleus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daphnis" title="Daphnis">Daphnis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iodame" title="Iodame">Iodame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laelaps_(mythology)" title="Laelaps (mythology)">Laelaps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lethaea" title="Lethaea">Lethaea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyco_and_Orphe" title="Lyco and Orphe">Lyco and Orphe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olenus" title="Olenus">Olenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallas_(Giant)" title="Pallas (Giant)">Pallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandareus" title="Pandareus">Pandareus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phineus_(son_of_Belus)" title="Phineus (son of Belus)">Phineus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polydectes" title="Polydectes">Polydectes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proetus_(son_of_Abas)" title="Proetus (son of Abas)">Proetus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propoetides" title="Propoetides">Propoetides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_(mythology)" title="Pyrrhus (mythology)">Pyrrhus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teumessian_fox" title="Teumessian fox">Teumessian fox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psamathe_(Nereid)" title="Psamathe (Nereid)">Wolf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Landforms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Achelous" title="Achelous">Achelous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acheron" title="Acheron">Acheron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acis_and_Galatea" title="Acis and Galatea">Acis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aea_(mythology)" title="Aea (mythology)">Aea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alope" title="Alope">Alope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpheus_(deity)" title="Alpheus (deity)">Alpheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa_(Boeotia)" title="Arethusa (Boeotia)">Arethusa (Boeotia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa_(mythology)" title="Arethusa (mythology)">Arethusa (Elis)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa_(Ithaca)" title="Arethusa (Ithaca)">Arethusa (Ithaca)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteria_(Titaness)" title="Asteria (Titaness)">Asteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aura_(mythology)" title="Aura (mythology)">Aura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byblis" title="Byblis">Byblis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calliste_(mythology)" title="Calliste (mythology)">Calliste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castalia" title="Castalia">Castalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chione_(daughter_of_Callirrhoe)" title="Chione (daughter of Callirrhoe)">Chione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleite" title="Cleite">Cleite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comaetho_of_Cilicia" title="Comaetho of Cilicia">Comaetho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyane" title="Cyane">Cyane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirce" title="Dirce">Dirce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haemus" title="Haemus">Haemus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lichas" title="Lichas">Lichas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilaeus_(mythology)" title="Lilaeus (mythology)">Lilaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manto_(daughter_of_Tiresias)" title="Manto (daughter of Tiresias)">Manto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marsyas" title="Marsyas">Marsyas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menippe_and_Metioche" title="Menippe and Metioche">Menippe and Metioche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niobe" title="Niobe">Niobe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perimele" title="Perimele">Perimele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirene_(nymph)" title="Pirene (nymph)">Pirene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe" title="Pyramus and Thisbe">Pyramus and Thisbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhodope_(mythology)" title="Rhodope (mythology)">Rhodope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhodopis_and_Euthynicus" title="Rhodopis and Euthynicus">Rhodopis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sangarius_(mythology)" title="Sangarius (mythology)">Sangas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selemnos" title="Selemnos">Selemnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sybaris_(mythology)" title="Sybaris (mythology)">Sybaris</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Opposite sex</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caeneus" title="Caeneus">Caeneus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaphroditus" title="Hermaphroditus">Hermaphroditus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iphis" title="Iphis">Iphis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leucippus_of_Crete" title="Leucippus of Crete">Leucippus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmacis" title="Salmacis">Salmacis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siproites" title="Siproites">Siproites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sithon_(mythology)" title="Sithon (mythology)">Sithon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#cef2e0;width:1%">Plants</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adonis" title="Adonis">Adonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agdistis" title="Agdistis">Agdistis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajax_the_Great" title="Ajax the Great">Ajax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amaracus" title="Amaracus">Amaracus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrosia_(Hyades)" title="Ambrosia (Hyades)">Ambrosia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ampelos" title="Ampelos">Ampelus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anethus" title="Anethus">Anethus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attis" 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