I am always wondering who is the biological father of that beautiful Scylla who was changed from young beautiful lady to an attractive sea monster by Circe because Circe's beloved fell in love with Scylla. Homer mentions Crataeis as the mother of Scylla, but says nothing as to her father. According to Stesichorus, the mother of Scylla was Lamia. Apollonius Rhodius represents Scylla as a daughter of Phorcus by the night-wandering hag Hecate and this parentage has the support of Acusilaus, except that he named her father Phorcys instead of Phorcus.
Hyginus calls her a daughter of Typhon and Echidna (Hyginus, Fab. 125, 151, and praefat. p. 31, ed. Bunte). A Scholiast who may have copied the present passage of Apollodorus, calls Scylla a daughter of Crataeis and Tyrrhenus or Phorcus, adding that she had the face and breasts of a woman, but from the flanks six heads of dogs and twelve feet. Some said that the father of Scylla was Triton and perhaps the name Triton should be read instead of Trienus in the present passage of Apollodorus.
