One is the obscure Scylla and the other the obscure Charybdis. Both, in the current context, are unpleasant alternatives. India, therefore, faces two diametrically opposite challenges when dealing ...

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...

In Homer’s Odyssey, the episode of the witch Circe is one of the most deliciously intriguing of the epic. She is often ...

Ancient Greek sailors, whose sails caught the winds of curiosity and ambition, were among the earliest to venture beyond ...

Legislation is always hard to pass, but in this case it might be easier than some think. Colleges and universities are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. On the one hand, the SFFA decision prohibits ...

So the Fed is trying to steer a course through these two perils, with Powell cast as a latter day Odysseus, sailing gingerly between Scylla and Charybdis, the six-headed monster and the deadly ...

Teenagers spend an average of six to eight hours a day in screen-based leisure, and even Bill Gates is troubled by how it may be affecting their concentration, critical thinking, and confidence.

Is there any space between the Scylla of blind retreat into the known virtues of teaching and research and the Charybdis of the ... texts, and images, which appear to be relevant to the most ...

Even the phrase “caught between Scylla and Charybdis” draws on the perilous ... while calling something a “dragon” conjures images of formidable power or danger. Even creatures like ...

"Next we began to sail up the narrow strait lamenting. For on the one hand lay Scylla, and on the other mighty Charybdis in terrible wise sucked down the salt sea water. As often as she belched it ...