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26-506: Merrymount or Merry Mount may refer to: Merrymount Colony , a former British colony located in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts Merrymount (Quincy, Massachusetts) , a neighborhood in Quincy, site of the colony Merry Mount (opera) , an opera loosely based on story of the colony Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

52-629: A beautiful nymph who gets turned into a monster. Book Three of Virgil 's Aeneid associates the strait where Scylla dwells with the Strait of Messina between Calabria , a region of Southern Italy , and Sicily . The coastal town of Scilla in Calabria takes its name from the mythological figure of Scylla and it is said to be the home of the nymph. The idiom " between Scylla and Charybdis " has come to mean being forced to choose between two similarly undesirable or risky outcomes, similar to "between

78-555: A monster but merely murders the beautiful nymph. Glaucus then takes her corpse to a crystal palace at the bottom of the ocean where lie the bodies of all lovers who have died at sea. After a thousand years, she is resurrected by Endymion and reunited with Glaucus. At the Carolingian abbey of Corvey in Westphalia, a unique ninth-century wall painting depicts, among other things, Odysseus' fight with Scylla. This illustration

104-517: A poem to the pole. Rise Oedipus , and if thou canst unfold What meanes Caribdis underneath the mould, When Scilla sollitary on the ground (Sitting in forme of Niobe ) was found, Till Amphitrites Darling did acquaint Grim Neptune with the Tenor of her plaint, And causd him send forth Triton with the sound Of Trumpet lowd, at which the Seas were found So full of Protean formes that

130-489: A profit. Rasdall obliged, sailing to Virginia and leaving a man named Fitcher in charge until his return. Morton then held a feast with the remaining servants, telling them they would be sold in Virginia upon Wollaston's return. Morton convinced the servants to overthrow Fitcher, telling them they would be freed of their servitude and would live together as equals. Morton kept his promise, abolishing all formal hierarchy in

156-572: A promoter of English colonization of the Americas , and sought to use the success of the Plymouth Colony for his own ambitions on New England . Gorges sent a group of adventurers and indentured servants , led by Richard Wollaston and Humphrey Rastall on the ship Unity, which set sail from London on March 23, 1624. Among the passengers on the Unity was Thomas Morton, a lawyer, who, when

182-498: A rock and a hard place". The parentage of Scylla varies according to author. Homer , Ovid , Apollodorus , Servius , and a scholiast on Plato, all name Crataeis as the mother of Scylla. Neither Homer nor Ovid mentions a father, but Apollodorus says that the father was either Trienus (probably a textual corruption of Triton ) or Phorcus (a variant of Phorkys ). Similarly, the Plato scholiast, perhaps following Apollodorus, gives

208-531: A thing of terror even to herself. In vain she offers from herself to run And drags about her what she strives to shun. The story was later adapted into a five-act tragic opera, Scylla et Glaucus (1746), by the French composer Jean-Marie Leclair . In John Keats ' loose retelling of Ovid's version of the myth of Scylla and Glaucus in Book 3 of Endymion (1818), the evil Circe does not transform Scylla into

234-566: Is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis . The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid the whirlpools of Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa. Scylla is first attested in Homer 's Odyssey , where Odysseus and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels. Later myth provides an origin story as

260-676: Is a thing assign’d By the Deities owne minde To cure the hart opprest with greife, And of good liquors is the cheife. Then drinke, &c. Iô to Hymen, &c. Give to the Mellancolly man A cup or two of ’t now and than; This physick will soone revive his bloud, And make him be of a merrier moode. Then drinke, &c. Iô to Hymen, &c. Scylla In Greek mythology , Scylla ( / ˈ s ɪ l ə / SIL -ə ; ‹See Tfd› Greek : Σκύλλα , translit.   Skýlla , pronounced [skýlːa] )

286-581: Is not noted elsewhere in medieval arts. In the Renaissance and after, it was the story of Glaucus and Scylla that caught the imagination of painters across Europe. In Agostino Carracci 's 1597 fresco cycle of The Loves of the Gods in the Farnese Gallery , the two are shown embracing, a conjunction that is not sanctioned by the myth. More orthodox versions show the maiden scrambling away from

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312-505: The Aeneid , Scylla was a beautiful naiad who was claimed by Poseidon, but the jealous Nereid Amphitrite turned her into a terrible monster by poisoning the water of the spring where Scylla would bathe. A similar story is found in Hyginus , according to whom Scylla was loved by Glaucus , but Glaucus himself was also loved by the goddess sorceress Circe . While Scylla was bathing in

338-462: The English word merry. Whatever the etymology, Morton sought to commemorate the new name by erecting a maypole and holding a celebration on May Day , 1627. The maypole was made of pine and stood 80-feet high, covered in garlands and ribbons with a buck's antlers nailed to the top. The maypole was brought to the top of the hill and raised to the sounds of drums and gunfire. Morton then affixed

364-617: The amorous arms of the god, as in the oil on copper painting of Fillipo Lauri and the oil on canvas by Salvator Rosa in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen . Other painters picture them divided by their respective elements of land and water, as in the paintings of the Flemish Bartholomäus Spranger (1587), now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna. Some add the detail of Cupid aiming at

390-498: The beautiful Scylla, but she is repulsed by his piscine form and flees to a promontory where he cannot follow. When Glaucus goes to Circe to request a love potion that will win Scylla's affections, the enchantress herself becomes enamored with him. Meeting with no success, Circe becomes hatefully jealous of her rival and therefore prepares a vial of poison and pours it into the sea pool where Scylla regularly bathed, transforming her into

416-572: The bold shore Presented Scilla a new parramore So stronge as Sampson and so patient As Job himselfe, directed thus, by fate, To comfort Scilla so unfortunate. I doe professe, by Cupids beautious mother, Heres Scogans choise for Scilla, and none other; Though Scilla’s sick with greife, because no signe Can there be found of vertue masculine. Esculapius come; I know right well His laboure’s lost when you may ring her Knell. The fatall sisters doome none can withstand, nor Cithareas powre, who poynts to land With proclamation that

442-581: The colony. In his writings, Morton refers to himself as "Mine Host," seeing himself as merely one among equals. Morton renamed the settlement Ma-Re Mount, from the Latin word mare and a supposed translation of the Indian name Passonagessit meaning "hill by the sea." William Bradford's account of the colony in Of Plymouth Plantation conflicts with this, calling the colony "Merie-mounte" from

468-495: The father as Tyrrhenus or Phorcus, while Eustathius on Homer, Odyssey 12.85, gave the father as Triton, or Poseidon and Crateis as the parents. Other authors have Hecate as Scylla's mother. The Hesiodic Megalai Ehoiai gives Hecate and Apollo as the parents of Scylla, while Acusilaus says that Scylla's parents were Hecate and Phorkys (so also schol. Odyssey 12.85). Perhaps trying to reconcile these conflicting accounts, Apollonius of Rhodes says that Crataeis

494-712: The first of May At Ma-re Mount shall be kept hollyday. The poem is the oldest known American poem. Morton also records a song, also of his own composition, that was sung during the dance around the Maypole. Drinke and be merry, merry, merry boyes; Let all your delight be in the Hymens ioyes; Jô to Hymen, now the day is come, About the merry Maypole take Roome. Make greene garlons, bring bottles out And fill sweet Nectar freely about. Vncover thy head and feare no harme For hers good liquor to keepe it warme. Then drinke and be merry, &c. Iô to Hymen, &c. Nectar

520-478: The sea, the jealous Circe poured a baleful potion into the sea water which caused Scylla to transform into a frightful monster with six dog forms springing from her thighs. In this form, she attacked Odysseus' ship, robbing him of his companions. In a late Greek myth, recorded in Eustathius ' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes, Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her. Her father,

546-500: The sea-god Phorcys , then applied flaming torches to her body and restored her to life. In Homer's Odyssey XII, Odysseus is advised by Circe to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship: "Hug Scylla's crag—sail on past her—top speed! Better by far to lose six men and keep your ship than lose your entire crew." She also tells Odysseus to ask Scylla's mother, the river nymph Crataeis , to prevent Scylla from pouncing more than once. Odysseus successfully navigates

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572-468: The sea-god with his bow, as in the painting of Laurent de la Hyre (1640/4) in the J. Paul Getty Museum and that of Jacques Dumont le Romain (1726) at the Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes . Two cupids can also be seen fluttering around the fleeing Scylla in the late painting of the scene by J. M. W. Turner (1841), now in the Kimbell Art Museum . Peter Paul Rubens shows the moment when

598-597: The ship arrived in New England in June of 1624, was highly impressed by the abundant resources of the land, later writing "if this land be not rich, then is the whole world poore.” Despite Morton's statements on the colony's abundance, it soon struggled with famine. Wollaston quickly viewed the colony as a failure, traveling to Virginia with several of the indentured servants and writing to Rasdall, telling him to join him there and bring more indentured servants to sell for

624-427: The strait, but when he and his crew are momentarily distracted by Charybdis, Scylla snatches six sailors off the deck and devours them alive. ...they writhed gasping as Scylla swung them up her cliff and there at her cavern's mouth she bolted them down raw— screaming out, flinging their arms toward me, lost in that mortal struggle. According to Ovid , the fisherman-turned- sea god Glaucus falls in love with

650-490: The title Merrymount . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merrymount&oldid=1245108131 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Merrymount Colony Ferdinando Gorges had long been

676-510: Was another name for Hecate, and that she and Phorcys were the parents of Scylla. Likewise, Semos of Delos says that Crataeis was the daughter of Hecate and Triton, and mother of Scylla by Deimos. Stesichorus (alone) names Lamia as the mother of Scylla, possibly the Lamia who was the daughter of Poseidon, while according to Hyginus , Scylla was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna . According to John Tzetzes and Servius' commentary on

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