Strait of Messina

Place · slug: strait-of-messina

Also: Sicilian–Italian narrows

Heracles and Eryx: Wrestling for the Bull
Heroes — Heracles / side episode on the Geryon cattle-drive · Apollodorean — Eryx slain in wrestling after a runaway bull reaches Sicily
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