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- Scylla – Mythopedia
Scylla was a multi-headed, hybrid monster who haunted a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool Charybdis With her darting heads and sharp teeth, Scylla would pick off unwary sea creatures or sailors who passed too close
- Charybdis – Mythopedia
Charybdis was a sea monster inhabiting one side of a narrow strait, just opposite the monster Scylla Three times a day, Charybdis would swallow up the waters of the sea, only to throw them up again
- Medusa – Mythopedia
Medusa, one of the three monstrous Gorgons, was a snake-haired female who turned anybody who looked upon her to stone She was finally killed by the hero Perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies
- Odyssey: Book 12 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Here Scylla bellows from the dire abodes, Tremendous pest, abhorr’d by man and gods! Hideous her voice, and with less terrors roar The whelps of lions in the midnight hour Twelve feet, deform’d and foul, the fiend dispreads; Six horrid necks she rears, and six terrific heads; Her jaws grin dreadful with three rows of teeth;
- Odysseus – Mythopedia
Odysseus was a Greek hero from Ithaca known for his cunning After helping to win the Trojan War, he was forced to wander the world for ten years before returning home
- Echidna – Mythopedia
Echidna was a primeval female monster, usually represented as a woman from the waist up and a snake from the waist down She was said to have been the mother of some of the most fearsome monsters of Greek myth, including Cerberus, the Chimera, and the Hydra
- Phorcys – Mythopedia
Phorcys, son of Pontus and Gaia, was a Greek sea god He fathered a host of mythological monsters with his sister-consort Ceto Among these terrifying children—sometimes collectively known as the “Phorcides”—were the Gorgons and the Graeae
- Metamorphoses: Book 8 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The Story of Nisus and Scylla Mean-while King Minos, on the Attick strand, Displays his martial skill, and wastes the land His army lies encampt upon the plains, Before Alcathoe’s walls, where Nisus reigns; On whose grey head a lock of purple hue, The strength, and fortune of his kingdom, grew Six moons were gone, and past, when still from far
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