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- Scylla
- Scylla
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Note on transliterations and translations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Scylla in the Odyssey
- Chapter 1 The impregnable monster
- Chapter 2 A poetic hazard
- Chapter 3 The gullet of the sea
- Chapter 4 Puzzles and riddles
- Part II Scylla in classical Greece
- Part III Scylla in Hellenistic Greece and Rome
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- Index of Greek and Latin words
- Index of objects discussed
- General index
Chapter 3 - The gullet of the sea
from Part I - Scylla in the Odyssey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Scylla
- Scylla
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Note on transliterations and translations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Scylla in the Odyssey
- Chapter 1 The impregnable monster
- Chapter 2 A poetic hazard
- Chapter 3 The gullet of the sea
- Chapter 4 Puzzles and riddles
- Part II Scylla in classical Greece
- Part III Scylla in Hellenistic Greece and Rome
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- Index of Greek and Latin words
- Index of objects discussed
- General index
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- ScyllaMyth, Metaphor, Paradox, pp. 52 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013