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Scylla and Charybdis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Scylla and Charybdis, the names of two mythical navigational...mariners on board to their destruction. Charybdis was a dangerous whirlpool on the Sicilian...whirlpool. Between Scylla on one side and Charybdis on the other, the unfortunate seamen...
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Charybdis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charybdis , in Greek mythology, a female monster. Because she stole Hercules' cattle, Zeus hurled her into the sea. There she lay under rocks across from Scylla and sucked in and spewed out huge amounts of water, creating a whirlpool.
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Psychology of Religion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...books, 1991. reich, k. helmut. "scientist vs. believer?: on navigating between the scilla of scientific norms and the charybdis of personal experience." journal of psychology and theology 28, no. 3 (200): 190-200. vetter, george b. magic...
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Odysseus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...carried him along the coast of North Africa and across the unknown seas to Italy, where he braved the dangers of Scylla and Charybdis, a voyage recorded by Homer as the Odyssey . After many adventures he was, again according to legend, slain unknowingly...
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Sirens
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Sirens In Greek mythology, three sea nymphs with women's heads and birds' bodies. They lived on a rocky island near the straits of Messina, home to Scylla and Charybdis , and their beautiful singing was believed to attract sailors onto the rocks.
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Scylla
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Messina, where she seized sailors from passing ships and devoured them. On the other side of the strait was the whirlpool Charybdis. Odysseus in his wanderings passed between them, as did Jason and the Argonauts. 2 Daughter of Nisus, king of Megara...
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Homer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...auml;; he relates to them the story of his wanderings in which he has encountered Polyphemus, Aeolus, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, the Laestrygones, and the lotus-eaters (Books V-XII). Dramatic tension mounts with the return of Odysseus...
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Misogyny
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...boys. Classical antiquity was full of female monsters: sirens, maenads, nymphs, lamias, and the sea viragoes Scylla and Charybdis who drowned sailors off the coast of Sicily. The snake-haired gargoyle Medusa turned men to stone with a look. One of...
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whirlpool
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of the wind upon the water. There are no true whirlpools really dangerous to shipping; the Maelstrom, near Norway, and Charybdis , near Sicily, are subjects of legend and myth, and Corrievrekin , near Scotland, was feared by the sailors of small boats...
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The Secretary-General
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations
...a reading of the text [of the Charter]: of succumbing, that is, to vanity and wishful thinking. On the other is the Charybdis of trying to limit the role to only those responsibilities which are explicitly conferred by the Charter and are impossible...
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