Scylla is a princess of Megara in Greek mythology. She is mentioned by Ovid. Megara (Greek: Μέγαρα; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the telling of stories created by the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ... Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanţa AD 17), a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. ...

As the story goes, Scylla was the daughter of Nisus, the King of Megara, who possessed a single lock of red hair which granted him invincibility. When Minos, the King of Crete, invaded Nisus's kingdom, Scylla saw him from the city's battlements and fell in love with him. In order to win Minos's heart, she decided that she would grant him victory in battle by removing the lock from her father's head. In Ovid's version of the story, she not only cut off the lock, but also her father's head and presented it to Minos. Disgusted with her lack of filial devotion, he either killed Scylla or left Megara immediately. She was transformed into a seabird, relentlessly pursued by her father, who was transformed into a sea eagle. (Ovid VIII, 35) In mythology, Nisus refers to two differerent people: In Greek mythology, Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of red hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. ... Front face of the MINOS far detector. ...