Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Scylla and Charybdis (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — strait passage isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Scylla and Nisus: The Purple Lock
  Local and lesser — Megarian / Cretan war · Apollodorean / Pausanian (+ Ciris tradition; Ovid labeled Roman for fullest metamorphosis)
• Scylla and Charybdis: Origin and Metamorphosis
  Local and lesser — Sicilian strait aetiology (separate from *Odyssey* 12 encounter) · Ovidian Roman transmission of Circe–Glaucus–Scylla metamorphosis; Greek notices of Charybdis as daughter of Poseidon and Gaia
• Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
  Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
• Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian love triangle / river aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid); builds on Theocritean Polyphemus–Galatea love

Places appearing with them

• Circe’s land
• Cyclops’s rock seat
• Fig tree on Charybdis’s rock
• Megara
• Mount Etna
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Ogygia
• Pool
• River Acis
• Rock of Scylla
• Sea off Megara
• Shore grass
• Sirens’ island
• Spring Aega
• Strait of Messina
• Strait of Scylla and Charybdis
• The deep
• Thrinacia
• Whirlpool of Charybdis

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• Theft
• War