Monster · Character in Homer’s Odyssey
Scylla
Six heads in the cliff
Ravenous and unreasoning; takes her six and cannot be fought.
A yelping horror in a cave above the strait, with six necks and six mouths. Circè's advice is to row past hard and lose six men rather than lose the ship, and that is exactly what happens.
Bonds
- Scylla enemy of Odysseus — snatches six of his crew
Appears in
- Book XII The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis
Scenes
- Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis — Book XII. Circè describes Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis
- Circè’s Final Warnings — Book XII. Circè warns to spare Helios’ cattle
- Nearing the Strait — Book XII. Odysseus defies Circè, arms himself
- Scylla Seizes Six — Book XII. Scylla snatches six, devours them screaming
- Sighting Thrinacia — Book XII. Odysseus urges crew past lowing herds
- Trapped by Storm — Book XII. Zeus’ storm traps crew, who mourn
- Adrift to Calypso — Book XII. Odysseus escapes Charybdis, drifts to Calypso
- Night of Shared Tales — Book XXIII. Penelope, Odysseus share their tales