Nymph transformed into a sea monster by Circe in Greek mythology
For other uses, see Scylla (disambiguation).
Scylla as a maiden with a kētos 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 dragon-like.[1]
In Greek mythology, Scylla[a] (/ˈsɪlə/SIL-ə; Greek: Σκύλλα, translit. Skýlla, pronounced[skýlːa]) is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa.
Scylla is first attested in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus 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.[2]
Book Three of Virgil's Aeneid[3] associates the strait where Scylla dwells with the Strait of Messina between Calabria, a region of Southern Italy, and Sicily. The coastal town of Scilla in Calabria takes its name from the mythological figure of Scylla and it is said to be the home of the nymph.
The idiom "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being forced to choose between two similarly dangerous situations.
^Ogden (2013), p. 132.
^Ogden (2013), pp. 130–131.
^Virgil (2007). Aeneid. Translated by Ahl, Frederick. Oxford University Press. pp. 67. ISBN 978-0-19-283206-1.
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