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Charybdis was a monster of obscure origins who manifested as a giant whirlpool. Every day, she swallowed up the waters of the sea three times, only to regurgitate them. Charybdis shared a narrow strait with the monster Scylla. Those who attempted to traverse the strait rarely lived to tell the tale: what Scylla did not pick off with her many ...
Scylla was a nightmarish monster of obscure origins. The most common description gave her the body and head of a woman, six long serpentine necks (each ending in a mouth with three rows of teeth), twelve feet, and six dog heads growing out of her waist. Scylla lived in the cliffs on one side of a narrow strait, just opposite the whirlpool ...
Argument The Sirene, Scylla, and Charybdis. He relates how, after his return from the shades, he was sent by Circe on his voyage, by the coast of the Sirens, and by the strait of Scylla and Charybdis: the manner in which he escaped those dangers: how, being cast on the island Trinacria, his companions destroyed the oxen of the Sun: the vengeance that followed; how all perished by shipwreck ...
Forewarn’d by Helenus, we strive to shun Charybdis’ gulf, nor dare to Scylla run. An equal fate on either side appears: We, tacking to the left, are free from fears; For, from Pelorus’ point, the North arose, And drove us back where swift Pantagias flows. His rocky mouth we pass, and make our way By Thapsus and Megara’s winding bay.
In Book 12, Odysseus tells of how he and his men managed to escape the Sirens and the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis. But on the holy isle of Thrinacia, his men decide to devour the cattle of the sun god Helios and are killed in a storm as punishment. Odysseus, the sole survivor, washes ashore on Ogygia, where he is kept as Calypso’s lover ...
Odysseus then passed between the many-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, two creatures who inhabited opposite sides of a narrow strait. Following Circe’s advice, Odysseus steered close to Scylla, knowing that while she would devour six of his men (one for each of her mouths), Charybdis would swallow the whole ship and all of ...
Circe was a daughter of Helios and the sister of Aeetes, which made her Medea’s aunt. Like Medea, she was a powerful witch. After Circe had purified Jason and Medea, the Argonauts sailed past the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Planctae before reaching Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians.
The Hydra, also called the Lernean Hydra (because it lived near Lerna in Greece), was part of a brood of ancient mythical monsters. Its parents were the creatures Typhoeus and Echidna, and its siblings included other multi-headed beasts, such as Cerberus and the Chimera. The Hydra itself was a serpent with numerous heads (the exact number ...
As to the Latian shore the Trojan stood, And cut with well-tim’d oars the foaming flood: He weather’d fell Charybdis: but ere-long The skies were darken’d, and the tempest strong. Then to the Libyan coast he stretches o’er; And makes at length the Carthaginian shore. Here Dido, with an hospitable care, Into her heart receives the wanderer.
The Story of Nisus and Scylla. Mean-while King Minos, on the Attick strand, Displays his martial skill, and wastes the land. His army lies encampt upon the plains, Before Alcathoe’s walls, where Nisus reigns; On whose grey head a lock of purple hue, The strength, and fortune of his kingdom, grew.