Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Scylla and Charybdis (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — strait passage isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Scylla and Charybdis: Origin and Metamorphosis
  Local and lesser — Sicilian strait aetiology (separate from *Odyssey* 12 encounter) · Ovidian Roman transmission of Circe–Glaucus–Scylla metamorphosis; Greek notices of Charybdis as daughter of Poseidon and Gaia

Places appearing with them

• Circe’s land
• Fig tree on Charybdis’s rock
• Ogygia
• Pool
• Rock of Scylla
• Sirens’ island
• Strait of Messina
• Strait of Scylla and Charybdis
• The deep
• Thrinacia
• Whirlpool of Charybdis

Themes

• Binding
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• War