Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis

She is the Daughter of Typhon and Echidna. Beautiful Nymph child of the Gods, Scylla. Scylla who witnessed her children perish as a result of Hera's jealousy, went violently insane and began to devour infant children whom she tore from their mother's arms. Zeus, in his sadness, placed her within a deep sleep beneath the sea, which was broken by Poseidon who was taken with her beauty. This inspired the jealousy of Amphitrite who turned to Circe for vengeance. Circe then placed magic herbs into a pool where Scylla bathed and up sprang six necks from her back, surmounted by six monstrous heads each supplied with a triple row of teeth. From waist down great gaping mouths and tentacles had grown as her entire form grew to enormous size. She sought refuge in the sea, lurking in a hollowed cliff, attacking and devouring any who pass.

Homer tells us of the great whirlpool: 'Divine Charybdis with a terrible roar swallows the waves of the bitter sea and three times each day she throws them up again.' No vessel could boast of escaping Scylla or Charybdis without loss.

Witness Brave Odysseus and his loyal crew as they navigate these twin terrors through the straights of Sicily on their epic journey home to Ithaca.