{"id":730,"date":"2019-05-03T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/?p=730"},"modified":"2019-05-03T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:56:24","slug":"scylla-terror-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/scylla-terror-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Scylla: Terror of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Greek mythology Scylla was known as a sea monster, who lived near whirlpools and haunted the rocks of a narrow strait. Ships were known for sailing over there due to her lore of pretending to be a girl lost in the sea needed in rescue, but any ship that when near would lose six men to her darting head that were fast killing them fast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive center-block aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoi.com\/image\/P27.1Skylla.jpg\" alt=\"Scylla | Paestan red-figure krater C4th B.C. | The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu\" width=\"272\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She is described as a creature with 12 dangling feet and six long necks with heads that have triple rows of razor sharp teeth. Her voice sounding like a yelping dogs, this was however probably given due to imagery words that linked to her &#8221; Dog-shark&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In classical art she was shown as a fish- tailed sea goddess with a cluster of canine fore- parts surrounding her waist.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the late classical writers says she was once a beautiful nymph loved by the sea god Glaukos, but rivals became jealous and the witch Kirke, transformed her into a sea monster she&#8217;s known for. Older poets says that Scylla was simply a monster born into a monstrous family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Greek mythology Scylla was known as a sea monster, who lived near whirlpools and haunted the rocks of a narrow strait. Ships were known for sailing over there due to her lore of pretending to be a girl lost in the sea needed in rescue, but any ship that when near would lose six&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mythical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}