Scylla
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scylla-222-1217364
title:
Scylla
text:
In Greek mythology, Scylla 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 my
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Nymph transformed into a sea monster by Circe in Greek mythology
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla
date created:
2001-08-21T07:00:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T00:31:30Z
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image:
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13
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