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"Between Scylla and Charybdis" is the ancient equivalent of "between a rock and a hard place."
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Who or what was a charybdris?
Charybdis was a nymph before turning into what she was. For some reason she did something horrendous and was turned into a whirlpool. She and her sister were in this business Scylla was also a nymph but got punished and became a headed monster. But they got so frustrated that whenever a ship came you had no where to go because you would either get eaten by Scylla of drown by Charybdis. The only to that made it through them was Odysseus and i think Jason.
How did Scylla become a monster?
Scylla grew up a beautiful maiden nymph, the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. One day while she walked along the water's edge a man turned sea-god, Glaucus, spotted her. He lusted after her, but, in she did not return that love. A jealous Circe, who was in love with Glaucus herself, got pissed and used herbs to magically poison the water and transform poor Scylla. She was human to the waist, but below that were biting snapping dogs. She had become a monster. She sat on the Italian side of the straits of Messina gobbling up anything that came within her reach. In The Odyssey, Odysseus manages to avoid Charybdis (see above), but loses six men to Scylla. Scylla probably explained a partially submerged rock that ships foundered on. There is also a human named Scylla, in case you came here by mistake. Scylla means "She who rends". The painting is of Scylla and Circe, by John Melhuish Strudwick.
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How many men were killed by scylla?
It is said Scylla ate thousands of men as they passed by or tried to fight her. In particular, 6 of Odysseus' men were eaten as they came home from the Siege of Troy.
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