Pausanias Analysis

Passage 2.34.7

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Passage 2.34.7: Scylla's body cast ashore at Cape Scyllaeum

Mythic Skeptical

Greek Text

σταδίους δὲ ὀγδοήκοντα ἀπέχει μάλιστα ἄκρα Σκυλλαῖον ἀπὸ τῆς Νίσου καλουμένη θυγατρός. ὡς γὰρ δὴ τὴν Νίσαιαν ὁ Μίνως καὶ τὰ Μέγαρα εἷλεν ἐκείνης προδούσης, οὔτε γυναῖκα ἕξειν αὐτὴν ἔτι ἔφασκε καὶ προσέταξε τοῖς Κρησὶν ἐκβάλλειν τῆς νεώς· ἀποθανοῦσαν δὲ ἀπέρριψεν ἐς τὴν ἄκραν ταύτην ὁ κλύδων. τάφον δὲ οὐκ ἀποφαίνουσιν αὐτῆς, ἀλλὰ περιοφθῆναι τὸν νεκρόν φασι διαφορηθέντα ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκ θαλάσσης ὀρνίθων.

English Translation

Cape Scyllaeum lies at a distance of approximately eighty stades from the island named after the daughter Nisos. For when Minos captured Nisaia and Megara through this woman's betrayal, he declared that she would no longer be his wife, and commanded the Cretans to cast her out from their ship. When she died, the waves cast her body onto this promontory. They show no tomb for her, but say that her corpse was seen lying there and was torn apart by seabirds.

Proper Nouns

Cretans (Κρῆτες) other
Minos (Μίνως) person
Nisa (Νῖσα) person
Nisos (Νῖσος) person
Megara (Μέγαρα) place Q42307600
Skyllaion (Σκυλλαῖον) place Q24924372
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