Scylla

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §1.10 The daughter who stole from Nisus

  Scylla, daughter of Nisus, who cut off her father's fatal lock for love of Minos and was turned into a bird.

• The Festivals §4.12 Nisus's daughter

  Scylla, the sea-monster girdled with dogs in the strait opposite Charybdis.

• Metamorphoses §8.189 daughter of Nisus

  Scylla daughter of Nisus, to be distinguished from the sea-monster Scylla of Books 13-14.

• The Cure for Love §2 Scylla

  Daughter of King Nisus of Megara; for love of Minos she cut the purple lock on which her father's life and city depended.