Scylla chases the ship of Minos, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 - 1607 print Scylla chases the ship of Minos, who left her after she had betrayed her father for him. Her father had turned into a sea eagle and when he saw his daughter, he dived down to kill her, on which she turned into a bird. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving Scylla changed into a lark: when falling from Minos' boat (or when throwing herself into the sea), Scylla, daughter of Nisus, is changed into a lark; she is then pursued by the hawk into which her father was transforme
Scylla chases the ship of Minos, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 - 1607 print Scylla chases the ship of Minos, who left her after she had betrayed her father for him. Her father had turned into a sea eagle and when he saw his daughter, he dived down to kill her, on which she turned into a bird. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving Scylla changed into a lark: when falling from Minos' boat (or when throwing herself into the sea), Scylla, daughter of Nisus, is changed into a lark; she is then pursued by the hawk into which her father was transformed (Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII 145)
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