Editing Scylla (section)

==Parentage==
[[Image:Denarius Sextus Pompeius-Scilla.jpg|thumb|Scylla on the reverse of a first-century BC [[denarius]] minted by [[Sextus Pompeius]]|alt=|left]]

The parentage of Scylla varies according to author.<ref>For discussions of the parentage of Scylla, see Fowler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 p. 32], Ogden, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA134 134]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA135 135]; Gantz, pp. 731–732; and Frazer's note 3 to Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.7.20 E.7.20]</ref> [[Homer]], [[Ovid]], [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]], and a scholiast on Plato, all name [[Crataeis]] as the mother of Scylla.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=0C3862DF72BDE338E6D62A24A49FEF27?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D12%3Acard%3D111 12.124&ndash;125]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D13%3Acard%3D705 13.749]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.7.20 E7.20];  [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] on [[Virgil]] ''[[Aeneid]]'' 3.420; scholia on [[Plato]], ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' 9.588c.</ref> Neither Homer nor Ovid mentions a father, but Apollodorus says that the father was either Trienus (probably a textual corruption of [[Triton (mythology)|Triton]]) or Phorcus (a variant of [[Phorkys]]).<ref>Ogden, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA135 p. 135]; Gantz, p. 731; Frazer's note 3 to Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.7.20 E.7.20]</ref> Similarly, the Plato scholiast, perhaps following Apollodorus, gives the father as Tyrrhenus or Phorcus,<ref>Fowler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 p. 32]</ref> while [[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] on Homer, ''Odyssey'' 12.85, gave the father as Triton, or [[Poseidon]] and Crataeis as the parents.<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] on Homer, p. 1714</ref>

Other authors have [[Hecate]] as Scylla's mother. The [[Hesiodic]] ''[[Megalai Ehoiai]]'' gives Hecate and [[Apollo]] as the parents of Scylla,<ref>Hesiod [https://www-loebclassics-com.ezproxy.bu.edu/view/hesiod-other_fragments/2018/pb_LCL503.311.xml fr. 200 Most] [= fr. 262 MW] (Most, pp. 310, 311).</ref> while [[Acusilaus]] says that Scylla's parents were Hecate and Phorkys (so also scholia on ''[[Odyssey]]'' 12.85).<ref>[[Acusilaus]]. fr. 42 Fowler (Fowler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 p. 32]).</ref>

Perhaps trying to reconcile these conflicting accounts, [[Apollonius of Rhodes]] says that Crataeis was another name for Hecate, and that she and Phorcys were the parents of Scylla.<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/350/mode/2up 4. 828&ndash;829 (pp. 350&ndash;351)].</ref> Likewise, [[Semos of Delos]]<ref>''FGrHist'' 396 F 22</ref> says that Crataeis was the daughter of Hecate and Triton, and mother of Scylla by Deimos. [[Stesichorus]] (alone) names Lamia as the mother of Scylla, possibly the [[Lamia (daughter of Poseidon)|Lamia]] who was the daughter of Poseidon,<ref>[[Stesichorus]], [http://www.loebclassics.com/view/stesichorus_i-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.133.xml?result=1&rskey=vkJkZt F220 ''PMG'' (Campbell, pp. 132&ndash;133)].</ref> while according to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], Scylla was the offspring of [[Typhon]] and [[Echidna (mythology)|Echidna]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#p.35 Preface] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#151 151]</ref>