# Scylla — Bulfinch’s Mythology character guide

> Scylla in Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Glaucus, Scylla Glaucus, poor Scylla

**First appearance:** 0019-glaucus-and-scylla

## Who they are

Sea monster or maiden transformed; also a princess who betrayed her father for love.

## In the story

### [Proserpine—Glaucus and Scylla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/vii-proserpine-glaucus-and-scylla)

A fisherman who becomes a sea-god and falls in love with Scylla; seeks Circe's help but is rejected.

### [Proserpine—Glaucus and Scylla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/vii-proserpine-glaucus-and-scylla)

A beautiful nymph who rejects Glaucus and is transformed by Circe into a sea monster with barking dogs.

### [Glaucus and Scylla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/glaucus-and-scylla)

A fisherman transformed into a sea-god who falls in love with Scylla and seeks Circe's help.

### [Glaucus and Scylla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/glaucus-and-scylla)

A beautiful water-nymph who rejects Glaucus and is transformed by Circe into a monster.

### [XIII: Nisus and Scylla—Echo and Narcissus—Clytie—Hero and Leander](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/xiii-nisus-and-scylla-echo-and-narcissus-clytie-hero-and-leander)

Daughter of King Nisus; betrays her father by cutting off his purple lock to win Minos, but is rejected and transformed into a bird.

### [Nisus and Scylla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/nisus-and-scylla)

Daughter of King Nisus, betrays her father for love of Minos, later transformed into a bird.

### [Acis and Galatea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/acis-and-galatea)

A fair virgin of Sicily who listens to Galatea's story.

### [Scylla and Charybdis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/scylla-and-charybdis)

A six-headed monster dwelling in a cave on a cliff, who seizes six of Ulysses' men.

### [S](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/s)

Sea-nymph beloved by Glaucus, changed by Circe into a monster and later a dangerous rock on the Sicilian coast.

## Links

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