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Headword:
Skulla
Adler number: sigma,709
Translated headword: Scylla
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The story used to be told that there is a monster in the Tyrrhenian Sea[1] which has the form of a very beautiful woman as far as its eyes;[2] six dogs' heads on each side; and for the rest a snaky body.
Greek Original:Skulla: en tôi Turrênikôi pelagei thêrion emutheueto einai, mechri men ophthalmôn gunaikos perikallous schêma echon: hekaterôthen de kunôn kephalas hex: to de allo sôma ophiôdes.
Notes:
On Scylla see generally OCD4 Scylla(1). The present entry's material is abbreviated from ps.-
Nonnus,
Scholia mythologica 4.52.
On Scylla's proverbial counterpart Charybdis see
chi 144.
[1] Off southern Italy.
[2] So the transmitted text; but ps.-
Nonnus has 'navel', here pluralized.
Reference:
Marianne Govers Hopman, Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox (2012)-- reviewed BMCR 2013.05.53
Keywords: gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; medicine; mythology; women; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 July 2000@20:20:15.
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