![]() Hesoid calls her the daughter of Hecate and Apollo.Īccording to Ovid, Scylla was once a beautiful nymph. ![]() Some sources, including Stesichorus, cite her parents as Triton and Lamia. She was one of the children of Phorcys and either Hecate, Crataeis, Lamia or Keto (where Scylla would also be known as one of the Phorcydes). Her body consisted of twelve tentacle-like legs and a tail and with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist. Scylla was a grotesque sea monster, with four eyes, six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. The idiom "between Scylla and Charybdis" (or between a rock and a hard place) 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.
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