Friday, February 5, 2010

Greek Mythology- Glaucus and Scylla

I haven't been posting regularly on our Mythology stories, but I need to do it more often. Laura's drawings are just fantastic and I want to keep an account of what she is doing for the future here. The stories are also very interesting- where was I in school? I don't remember learning this stuff!

The story of Glaucus and Scylla goes a bit like this: Glaucus was a fisherman who one day noticed the fish he caught were literally moving themselves back into the water.
He ate a bit of the herbs they were laying on thinking that the herbs must carry some kind of special powers.
So, sure enough, he began to long for the water so much, he gave up his life on land to live in the water.
He fell in love with a land- girl named Sylla, but alas! She spurned his love.
Needing help to earn her love, he asked advice from the enchantress Circe, but finding her solution of despising Scylla too severe, he rejected her advice.
In her anger, Circe caused Scylla to be consumed by horrible sea monsters and ultimately changed her into a wretched rock in the ocean becoming the terror of the sea- the cause of many shipwrecks.



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