Crossword clues for scylla
scylla
- Sea monster devouring sailors trying to escape from Charybdis
- Doctor calls scurvy ultimately a danger to sailors
- Charybdis' counterpart, in Greek myth
- "Odyssey" monster
- Six-headed monster with twelve feet from the "Odyssey"
- Mythical sea menace
- Monster who ate six of Odysseus's men
- Charybdis' partner
- Charybdis' counterpart in the "Odyssey"
- Caught between -- and Charybdis
- Between -- and Charybdis
- ''Odyssey'' menace
- ___ and Charybdis
- Monster in the Strait of Messina
- Strait of Messina menace
- Monster in the "Odyssey"
- (Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait
- Drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait
- Between ___ and Charybdis
- Charybdis's companion
- Homeric female monster
- Partner of Charybdis
- Greek sea monster who devoured sailors
- Mythical monster - namely, the reverse of a friend
- Colleague's going west, skirting constant danger to shipping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scylla \Scyl"la\, n. A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying ``Between Scylla and Charybdis,'' signifying a great peril on either hand.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sea-monster in the Strait of Messina, from Latinized form of Greek Skylla, of unknown origin, perhaps related to skyllein "to tear."
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, Scylla ( ; , , Skylla) was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa.
Scylla made her first appearance in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels. Later myth gave her an origin story as a beautiful nymph who gets turned into a monster.
The strait where Scylla dwelled has been associated with the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily. The idiom " between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being forced to choose between two equally dangerous situations.
Scylla may refer to:
- Scylla, a monster from Greek mythology traditionally located at today's town of Scilla, Calabria
- Scylla (princess), a princess of Megara, a figure from Greek mythology unrelated to the monster
- Scylla (band), a band fronted by Toni Halliday during her hiatus from the 1990s shoegaze band Curve
- Scylla (genus), a genus of swimming crabs including the economically important Scylla serrata
- Scylla (Gatti), an opera first performed in the Paris Opera in 1701
- Scylla (Prison Break episode), Prison Break's season four premiere
- Scylla (Transformers), a fictional character from Transformers: Beast Wars
- 155 Scylla, an asteroid
- HMS Scylla, a number of ships of the Royal Navy
- ScyllaDB, a NoSQL database
Scylla is a princess of Megara in Greek mythology. She is mentioned by Ovid.
As the story goes, Scylla was the daughter of Nisus ( Nisos) the King of Megara, who possessed a single lock of purple hair which granted him invincibility. When Minos, the King of Crete, invaded Nisus's kingdom, Scylla saw him from the city's battlements and fell in love with him. In order to win Minos's heart, she decided that she would grant him victory in battle by removing the lock from her father's head and presented it to Minos. Disgusted with her lack of filial devotion, he left Megara immediately. Scylla did not give up easily and started swimming after Minos's boat. She nearly reached him but a sea eagle, into which her father had been metamorphosed after death, drowned her. Scylla was transformed into a seabird (ciris), relentlessly pursued by her father, who was transformed into a sea eagle (haliaeetus).
Scylla's story is a close parallel to that of Comaetho, daughter of Pterelaus. Similar stories were told of Pisidice (princess of Methymna) and of Leucophrye.
Scylla appears in Alexander Pope's mock-heroic " Rape of the Lock" as part of an extended representation of gallant chatter round a card table in the guise of a heroic battle:
Ah cease, rash youth! desist ere 'tis too late,
Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla's fate!
Chang'd to a bird, and sent to flit in air,
She dearly pays for Nisus' injur'd hair!
"Scylla" is the 58th episode of the American television series Prison Break and the first episode of its fourth season which premiered as a two-hour episode with " Breaking & Entering". It was broadcast in the United States on September 1, 2008 and on the next day on Sky One and RTÉ Two.
Scylla is a genus of swimming crabs, comprising four species, of which S. serrata is the most widespread. They are found across the Indo-West Pacific. The four species are:
- Scylla olivacea (Herbst, 1796)
- Scylla paramamosain Estampador, 1949
- Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775)
- Scylla tranquebarica (Fabricius, 1798)
Scylla is a French-language opera by the composer Theobaldo di Gatti, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 16 September 1701. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto is by Joseph-François Duché de Vancy.
Usage examples of "scylla".
I should be between the Scylla of dullness and the Charybdis of indiscretion, and I feel that I had far better confine myself strictly to the underground drama which was being played beneath the surface of Ruritanian politics.
And now past the mighty rock of Scylla and Charybdis horribly belching, a course awaits them.
The Stygian flood, and Scylla and Charybdis, are found among the legends of the Caribs.
Better no chart whatever than one which shows no actually existing perils, but warns us against Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cyclops.
They go together like Scylla and Charybdis, throne and altar, Being and Time, master and dog.
Scylla and Charybdis were much alike, being huge, half-sentient knots of water-currents, ceaseless flows of liquid and energy all interwoven and entangled.
Now the bellowing, howling fountains that were Scylla and Charybdis came rolling up to Triton where he lay swimming in the deep, and reported to him that they had finished the job.
Triton feel confident that Scylla and Charybdis had really departed, than he realized, with a feeling of doom, that bad weather of purely natural origin was setting in, and there was almost nothing that he could do about it.
Scylla and Charybdis were somewhere far away, and out of touch with Triton, who felt very much alone.
Then there was another upwelllng of the sea, much more slow and solemn than that which had attended the appearance of Scylla and Charybdis, She-Who-Rends and Sucker-Down.
Argo had been still many miles at sea, he had been silently calling for Scylla and Charybdis to approach the harbor of Iolcus, and to wait a few miles offshore for new tasks he would assign them.
His office has been attorned to me by Saving Scylla, who would doubtless see his protracted devotion rewarded with that freedom from concerns which is the perfumed ointment of superannuity.
And as he regarded it in a nearer and a dearer light as a chignon that might possibly become his own, as a burden which in one sense he might himself be called upon to bear, as a domestic utensil of which he himself might be called upon to inspect, and, perhaps, to aid the shifting on and the shifting off, he did begin to think that that side of the Scylla gulf ought to be avoided if possible.
Fafhrd and the Mouser thought of Karnak and its obelisks, of the Pharos lighthouse, of the Acropolis, of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon, of the ruins of Khatti, of the Lost City of Ahriman, of those doomful mirage-towers that seamen see where are Scylla and Charybdis.
Somehow they were between Scylla and Charybdis, on board Odysseus' vessel.