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Scylla and Charybdis
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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Scylla and Charybdis, the names of two mythical navigational hazards in the Straits of Messina between which, according to the Greek legend, the fleet of
Odysseus, or in the Latin legend that of Ulysses, passed after the capture of Troy. In the legend Scylla was a nymph seen bathing in the nude by the sea god Glaucus who fell in love with her but whose advances she repelled. Glaucus appealed to Circe for a love potion but she, jealous of his affection for Scylla, gave him instead a poisonous mixture which, when poured into the sea when she bathed, turned Scylla into a frightful monster, rooted to a rock on the Italian side of the straits. Nevertheless, she retained her lovely voice and whenever a ship passed she sang songs enticing the mariners on board to their destruction.
Charybdis was a dangerous whirlpool on the Sicilian side of the straits opposite Scylla. She was said by legend originally to have been an avaricious woman who stole the oxen of Hercules and for this misdeed was punished by Zeus by being turned into a whirlpool. She was also said to swallow the sea three times a day and throw it up again, thus causing the whirlpool. Between Scylla on one side and Charybdis on the other, the unfortunate seamen of the time seemed to have little chance of survival.
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Between Scylla and Charybdis: moral hazard or systemic risk: bailout Odyssey poses tough choices.([the] ECONOMIST)
Magazine article from: ColoradoBiz; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/20/1994; ; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: William and Mary Law Review; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Using Technology To Avoid Scylla and Charybdis 1. United States v. Lifshitz: Analyzing...between the mythological perils Scylla and Charybdis, (17) this type of monitoring avoids...computer in everyday life--and the Charybdis of not placing any restrictions on the...
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ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL THOMAS O. BARNETT ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL THOMAS O. BARNETT DELIVERS REMARKS ON SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS AT THE GLOBAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT SYMPOSIUM
Transcript from: Washington Transcript Service; 9/23/2008; 700+ words
; ...BARNETT DELIVERS REMARKS ON SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS AT THE GLOBAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT SYMPOSIUM...pass through the gauntlet of Scylla and Charybdis on the journey home. As an initial matter...On the other side of the channel, Charybdis was a giant mouth that sucked in huge...
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Between Scylla and Charybdis.(NATION)(RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/15/2009; 700+ words
; ...eat any sailor who passed too closely. And on the other, Charybdis' gaping maw threatened to swallow Odysseus' ship whole...above is merely the Scylla. But we are also facing a deadly Charybdis. Because the recovery plan is being funded by massive debt...
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Between Scylla and Charybdis or between a rock and a hard place
Magazine article from: American Annals of the Deaf; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...sailing between two rock-dwelling monsters, Scylla and Charybdis. If a boat sailed too close to the cave dwelling six-headed...to avoid Scylla, it would be sucked into the whirlpool of Charybdis, with the sailors to die an equally horrible death. Through...
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Scylla and Charybdis.(Breakfast Table)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 6/17/2007; 588 words
; ...fondly called "balak beauty" - after the Visayan verse form - was the only president who used the Sargasso sea of Scylla and Charybdis to refer to unpleasant alternatives. Now the prosaic term is "no-win:" or "lose-lose," situation, for a predicament...
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Between Scylla and Charybdis: Teacher Education's Odyssey.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Journal of Teacher Education; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the privilege of educating teachers are currently encountering trials that share similarities with those of Odysseus. The Charybdis of privatization of education threatens to drain resources from public schools; the Scylla of high-stakes testing looms...
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Between Scylla and Charybdis: Reply to Commentaries
Magazine article from: Psychoanalytic Dialogues; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...failure to anticipate alternative versions of relational configurations. The author contends that the danger, the Scylla and Charybdis, of emphasis on these poles is the potential to overlook a fundamental developmental and treatment trajectory that reflects...
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Scylla and Charybdis
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Scylla and Charybdis In Greek mythology, Scylla and Charybdis were a pair of monsters who lived on opposite ends of...her, she struck out to grab and eat unwary sailors. Charybdis was also a sea nymph, as well as the daughter of Poseidon...
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Charybdis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Charybdis in Greek mythology, a dangerous whirlpool in a narrow channel of the sea, opposite the cave of the sea-monster Scylla .
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Scylla
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...navigate the narrow channel between her cave and the whirlpool Charybdis . In later legend Scylla was a dangerous rock, located on...Italian side of the Strait of Messina. To be between Scylla and Charybdis is to be between two dangers or pitfalls, as between the...
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Poseidon
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...earth, bore Poseidon two children: Antaeus, a giant, and Charybdis, a sea monster that almost destroyed Odysseus* during his...her into a horrible sea monster with six dogs' heads. Like Charybdis, Scylla terrorized sailors, and she devoured several 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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