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Scylla, the Diver’s Daughter: Aeschrion, Hedyle, and Ovid

Scylla, the Diver’s Daughter: Aeschrion, Hedyle, and Ovid

Classical Philology, 2011
Dunstan Lowe
Abstract
Among many mythological reworkings in the Metamorphoses, Ovid provides pathetic origin stories for three female monsters whom Homer represented as inhuman and dangerous. The Gorgon Medusa, Ovid claims, was once a beautiful-haired girl raped by Neptune; the ...

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