Scylla
animal · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Scylla the figure
Scyllas · Tyrrhene Scylla · half-fish bodies girdled with mad dogs
in the texts
Medea
A mythical sea-monster invoked as a simile for Medea's ferocity.
yet before them all I chose thee for my wife, wedding a foe to be my doom, no woman, but a lioness fiercer than Tyrrhene Scylla in nature.
Odyssey
Scylla is the monstrous creature that no sailor had ever safely passed, encountered on Odysseus's journey.
how he then heard the wondrous singing of the Sirens, and went on to the wandering rocks and terrible Charybdis and to Scylla, whom no man had ever yet passed in safety;
De Rerum Natura
Mythological sea-monster with a woman's/fish's body girdled by dog-heads, cited by Lucretius as another impossible hybrid alongside the Centaur.
The half-fish bodies girdled with mad dogs-
Or e'er exist alive, nor Scyllas be-