Scylla
mythological figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 12 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Scylla the animal
Scyllas · a Scylla in woman's form · a maiden... below a sea-monster · the limbs of Scyllas
in the texts
Letters
Homeric monster invoked as a metaphor for a woman who harmed Maximus.
And he has suffered these things, having perhaps provoked the Laestrygonians against himself, and having fallen in with a Scylla in woman's form possessing a dog's inhumanity and savagery.
On the Nature of the Gods
Mythical sea monster cited as an example of something never existent whose image nonetheless arises in the mind.
What of those things that never existed at all and could not exist, such as Scylla, or the Chimaera?
Odyssey
A monstrous, six-headed sea creature dwelling in a cliff cavern who devours six of Odysseus's men as the ship passes through the strait.
you must hug the Scylla side and drive ship by as fast as you can, for you had better lose six men than your whole crew.
Inside it Scylla sits and yelps with a voice that you might take to be that of a young hound, but in truth she is a dreadful monster and no one - not even a god - could face her without being terror-struck.
"Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread Charybdis kept sucking up the salt water.
De Rerum Natura
The mythological monster Scylla, cited as another example of a hybrid apparition produced by combined images rather than a real creature.
Thus, Centaurs and the limbs of Scyllas, thus
The Cerberus-visages of dogs we see,
Republic
A composite mythological monster invoked as an example of many forms grown together in one
One of those natures that the ancient fables tell of, said I, as that of the Chimaera or Scylla or Cerberus, and the numerous other examples that are told of many forms grown together in one.
Letters to Lucilius
Mythological sea-monster, half maiden and half beast, invoked via Virgil's description as an image of unnatural composite union.
For, as our Virgil, describing Scylla, says, "a maiden's is her upper face and lovely breast as far as the waist, below a sea-monster of vast body, with the tails of dolphins joined to a belly of wolves.
Memorabilia
The mythical monster who, according to the tale Socrates recalls, seized sailors by force and so was fled from by men, used as a negative example of coercive pursuit.
I am convinced that the reason why men fled from Scylla was that she laid hands on them;