Scylla Summary of Scylla Scylla is supposed to be a beautiful nymph A man called Glaucus fell in love with her She didn t like him and so ran away from him effectively rejecting her Therefore Glaucus went to a sorceress Circe and asked for Scylla s heart to be softened Circe however fell in love with Glaucus who rejected her Circe was angry at Scylla not Glaucus and so when Scylla was about to bathe she poured a powerful poison into Scylla s pool and so when Scylla bathed she turned into a horrible monster with twelve feet and six heads all with 3 rows of teeth Wolf heads grew from her waist and she just stood there each one of her heads taking someone who passed her She hated everything which came within reach and killed it What makes it a Good Story The story of the transformation of Scylla is a good story as it seems to make people realise their emotions when they hear about how Scylla was turned into an eternal being of pure evil even though she did nothing to anyone She didn t accept Glaucus s love and so was turned into a supernatural being because of someone else s jealousy of her looks 3 Latin Words to Describe Scylla Malus evil Miser wretched sad Aliquid miri something extraordinary The Insight that the Myth Affords Into The Ancient World This myth does not show us a lot about the ancient world as it is a myth and so does not show a representation of the real world then It does show us however that Ovid believed strongly in superstition or that he was just an imaginative writer which is equally likely We can get a glimpse of the colourful words which he uses to describe the dreadful transformation of Scylla Other In a late Greek myth Recorded in Eustathius commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes Ad Lycophron 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 According to John TzetzesTzetzes Ad Lycophron 45 and Servius commentary on the AeneidServius on Aeneid iii 420 Scylla was a beautiful naiad who was claimed by Poseidon but Amphitrite turned her into a monster 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 The character of Sin from John Milton s Paradise Lost is similar to Scylla Scylla and Charybdis are actually mentioned at one point in the poem Notes See also Scylla and Charybdis References 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 In Popular Culture American heavy metal band Trivium have a song on their album Shogun called Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis The Prison Break season four premiere is called Scylla and the episodes after feature the gang hunting to retrieve the six company data cards of the same name Scylla is portrayed as a secret government project to control all of the Sun s energy and more In Battlestar Galactica 2004 TV series the Scylla was a civilian transport ship in a small group of vessels picked up by the battlestar Pegasus a week after the Cylon attack on the Colonies The Scylla was left for dead after being abandoned and stripped of parts by the Pegasus crew The battlestar Pegasus serves as the Charybdis in the story of the Scylla s passengers who can not escape from either ship either being pressed into service on the battlestar or left stranded and lost on the civilian ships Source In video game Castlevania Symphony of the Night are creatures called Scylla wyrms In William Goldman s novel Marathon Man Scylla is the smooth but ruthless secret agent brother to the awkward marathon running geek In the movie adaptation Scylla was played by Roy Scheider and the younger brother was played by Dustin Hoffman Appeared in The Buffy The Vampire Slayer Videogame as one of buffys foes In the video game Sonic Chronicles The Dark Brotherhood Scylla and Charybdis are the names of two sectors within the alternate dimension known as the Twi