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adaptation, Artist, scyllaMay 15, 2024May 15, 2024

Giving Glaucus the Finger: Bartholomeus Spranger and his haughty Scylla

Scylla was not always the man-eating cliff-dwelling creature that devoured seafarers and their crews. Scylla came to be all that after Circe’s magical potions transformed her into the atavistic horror Odysseus met first-hand. In her earlier existence, Scylla was once a comely young woman whom …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation theory, Mythology, scyllaApril 30, 2024May 15, 2024

Not all seafarers play the Odysseus

Honoré Daumier’s satirical cartoon “De Charybde en Scylla” (From Charybdis to Scylla) is cataloged in the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts as a usage of the myth of Odysseus with Scylla and Charybdis. The usage, however, has more to do with Scylla …

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Roger Macfarlane

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