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[[Image:Scylla Louvre CA1341.jpg|thumb|300px|Scylla. Detail from a red-figure bell-crater, 450–425 BC.]] |
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'''Scylla''' ({{pronEng|ˈsɪlə}}), or '''Skylla''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Σκύλλα) was one of the two monsters in [[Greek mythology]] (the other being [[Charybdis]]) that lived on either side of a narrow channel of water. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other - so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa. The phrase ''between [[Scylla and Charybdis]]'' has come to mean being in a state where one is between two dangers and moving away from one will cause you to be in danger from the other. Traditionally the aforementioned strait has been associated with the [[Strait of Messina]] between [[Italy]] and [[Sicily]], but more recently this theory has been challenged, and the alternative location of Cape Skilla in northwest Greece has been suggested.{{Fact|date=September 2007}} |
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Scylla was a horribly grotesque sea monster, with six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve canine legs and a cat's tail. She was one of the children of [[Phorcys]] and either [[Hecate]], [[Crataeis]], [[Lamia (mythology)|Lamia]] or [[Ceto]] (where Scylla would also be known as one of the [[Phorcydes]]). Some sources, including [[Stesichorus]] cite her parents as [[Triton (mythology)|Triton]] and [[Lamia (mythology)|Lamia]]. |
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In classical art she was depicted as a fish-tailed mermaid with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist. |
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== In literature == |
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;'''Homer's ''Odyssey'' ''' |
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In [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'', [[Odysseus]] is given advice by [[Circe]] to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship. Odysseus then successfully sails his ship past Scylla and Charybdis, but Scylla manages to catch six of his men, devouring them alive. When this happens, Odysseus takes the empty spot on the boat and helps the men row the ship out of harm's way. |
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;'''Ovid''' |
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According to [[Ovid]], Scylla was once a beautiful nymph. The fisherman-turned-sea-[[god]] [[Glaucus]] fell madly in love with her, but she fled from him onto the land where he could not follow. Despair filled his heart. He went to the sorceress Circe to ask for a love potion to melt Scylla's heart. As he told his tale of love about Scylla to Circe, she herself fell in love with him. She wooed him with her sweetest words and looks, but the sea-god would have none of her. Circe was furiously angry, but with Scylla and not with Glaucus. She prepared a vial of very powerful poison and poured it in the pool where Scylla bathed. As soon as the nymph entered the water she was transformed into a frightful monster with twelve feet and six heads, each with three rows of [[teeth]]. Angry, growling [[wolf]] heads grew from her waist, and she tried to brush them off. She stood there in utter misery, unable to move, loathing and destroying everything that came into her reach, a peril to all sailors who passed near her. Whenever a ship passed, each of her heads would seize one of the crew. |
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;'''Other''' |
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In a late Greek myth it was said that [[Heracles]] encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her. Her father, the sea-god Phorcys, then applied flaming torches to her body and restored her to life. However, her death contradicts what is said by Circe after Odysseus asks if it is possible for him to fight Scylla, as she replies "Must you have battle in your heart forever? The bloody toil of combat? Old contender, will you not yield to the immortal gods? That nightmare cannot die, being eternal evil itself - horror, and pain, and chaos; there is no fighting her, no power can fight her, all that avails is flight." Considering that Circe transformed her in the first place, though, her claims cannot be said to be objective. |
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It is said that by the time [[Aeneas]]' fleet came through the strait after the fall of [[Troy]], Scylla had been changed into a dangerous rock outcropping which still stands there to this day. |
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== Possible Explanations == |
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Some suggest Scylla could be a large [[octopus]] or [[squid]] of some sort, saying the multiple necks could be tentacles and that the "three rows of teeth" could be rows of suckers. |
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== See also == |
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*[[Scylla and Charybdis]] |
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==References== |
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*Hanfmann, George M. A., "The Scylla of Corvey and Her Ancestors" ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers'' '''41''' "Studies on Art and Archeology in Honor of Ernst Kitzinger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1987), pp. 249-260. Hanfman assembles Classical and Christian literary and visual testimony of Scylla, from Mesopotamian origins to his ostensible subject, a ninth-century wall painting at [[Corvey Abbey]]. |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Skylla.html Theoi Project, Skylla] references in classical literature and ancient art. |
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[[Category:Greek mythology]] |
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[[Category:Mythological dogs]] |
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[[Category:Greek legendary creatures]] |
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[[ja:スキュラ]] |
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[[pt:Cila]] |
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[[uk:Скілла]] |
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Revision as of 18:21, 23 May 2008
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