Scylla (princess)
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Scylla is a princess of Megara in Greek mythology. She is mentioned by Ovid.
As the story goes, Scylla was the daughter of Nisus (Nisos) the King of Megara, who possessed a single lock of purple hair which granted him invincibility. When Minos, the King of Crete, invaded Nisus's kingdom, Scylla saw him from the city's battlements and fell in love with him. In order to win Minos's heart, she decided that she would grant him victory in battle by removing the lock from her father's head and presented it to Minos. Disgusted with her lack of filial devotion, he left Megara immediately. Scylla did not give up easily and starting swimming after Minos's boat. She nearly reached him but a sea eagle drowned her. She did not know that the eagle was the ghost of her dead father. Scylla was transformed into a seabird (ciris), relentlessly pursued by her father, who was transformed into a sea eagle (haliaeetus). In other stories,she was transformed into an ugly sea monster.(Ovid VIII, 6-151, esp. 154-151)
