
Scylla – Mythopedia
Sep 20, 2023 · Scylla was a multi-headed, hybrid monster who haunted a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool Charybdis. With her darting heads and sharp teeth, Scylla would pick off unwary …
Charybdis – Mythopedia
Mar 22, 2023 · Charybdis was a sea monster inhabiting one side of a narrow strait, just opposite the monster Scylla. Three times a day, Charybdis would swallow up the waters of the sea, only …
Odyssey: Book 12 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Here Scylla bellows from the dire abodes, Tremendous pest, abhorr’d by man and gods! Hideous her voice, and with less terrors roar The whelps of lions in the midnight hour. Twelve feet, …
Odysseus – Mythopedia
Apr 28, 2023 · Odysseus was a Greek hero from Ithaca known for his cunning. After helping to win the Trojan War, he was forced to wander the world for ten years before returning home.
Metamorphoses: Book 8 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The Story of Nisus and Scylla Mean-while King Minos, on the Attick strand, Displays his martial skill, and wastes the land. His army lies encampt upon the plains, Before Alcathoe’s walls, …
Medusa – Mythopedia
Mar 11, 2023 · Medusa, one of the three monstrous Gorgons, was a snake-haired female who turned anybody who looked upon her to stone. She was finally killed by the hero Perseus, who …
Phorcys – Mythopedia
Sep 6, 2023 · Phorcys, son of Pontus and Gaia, was a Greek sea god. He fathered a host of mythological monsters with his sister-consort Ceto. Among these terrifying …
Echidna – Mythopedia
Mar 22, 2023 · Echidna was a primeval female monster, usually represented as a woman from the waist up and a snake from the waist down. She was said to have been the mother of some of …
Odyssey – Mythopedia
Mar 1, 2023 · The Odyssey, traditionally said to have been composed by Homer, is an epic poem probably written around the middle of the eighth century BCE. It describes the Greek hero …
Lamia – Mythopedia
Mar 23, 2023 · Lamia was a vicious child-eating spirit from Greek popular religion. She was usually imagined as an ugly monster with removable eyes, though in some later traditions she …