Nisus
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In mythology, Nisus refers to three differerent people:
- In Greek mythology, Nisus was son of Pandion and Pylia, and King of Megara. He had a single daughter named Scylla, by his wife Abrote. Nisus was invincible as long as a lock of red hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. Minos, King of Crete attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his lock of red hair. His daughter, Scylla, fell in love with Minos and proved it by cutting the red hair off her father's head. Nisus died and Megara fell to Crete. Minos killed Scylla for disobeying her father. She was changed into a seabird, relentlessly pursued by her father, who was a sea eagle. (See also Aeschylus' Eumenides.)
- Another Nisus was the father of Amphinomus.
- In Roman mythology, Nisus was a son of Hyrtacus, friends with Aeneas and the older member of the pederastic couple Nisus and Euryalus [1] Euryalus died during a nocturnal raid on the Rutulians. (Virgil V, 294; IX, 199, 234.)
See also: Nisos
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