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Scylla is a feared monster. “Homer describes Skylla as a creature with twelve dangling feet, six long necks and grisly heads lined with a triple row of sharp teeth.” (Atsma). Some classic writers say that in her earlier life she was a beautiful nymph, however other poets depict that she has always been a monster and was born into a monstrous family. “Scylla” is the name of a rock that that lies between Italy and Sicily. It also resembles the Greek words meaning dog, dog shark, and rend. The closest direct translation is tear or rend. One story to explain how Scylla became this monster is that Circe put magic herbs in her water. She did this because the marine god Glaucous was in love Scylla, however Scylla did not love Glaucous because he was part fish. To teach Scylla a lesson about vanity, Circe transformed the beautiful nymph into a monster with the tail of a fish or serpent.

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Explanation of how Scylla functions in the Odyssey

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Explanation of how Scylla functions in the Odyssey

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In The Odyssey, Scylla lived in the Strait of Messina with Charabdis. In the story, Scylla and Charabdis resided in the narrow sea that Odysseus and his crew traveled through. Scylla ate anything that ventured into her cave, and devoured six members of Odysseus’s  crew. After Scylla ate his companions, “The shipwrecked Odysseus barely escaped her clutches by clinging to a tree until the improvised raft that she swallowed floated to the surface again after many hours”(Encyclopedia Britannica).

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Explanation of themes/ideas Scylla represents: 

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In some stories, Scylla represents the idea that if you make unfair judgments against someone then you will be punished. It is similar to the Beauty and the Beast story in which a handsome prince judges a woman because she looks old and helpless but she turns out ot be a powerful which. The which then curses the prince to be a beast and he must find someone to love him in that form. In a similar way, Scylla was cursed to be a hideous beast because she felt she was better than a man. In other stories, Scylla represents terrible misfortune. “To be ‘between Scylla and Charybdis’ means to be caught between two equally unpleasant alternatives” (Encyclopedia Britannica).

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Scylla and Charybdis. Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scylla-and-Charybdis

Atsma, A. Skylla(Scylla), Theoi Project, 2017

http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Skylla.html