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

Did Odysseus really travel all over the Mediterranean, as commonly believed? This article examines the evidence.

Mythology is a fertile ground for metaphors ... Even the phrase “caught between Scylla and Charybdis” draws on the perilous monsters faced by Odysseus, and the “Trojan horse” has become ...

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 ...

John 21, though, makes for a stormy course between a monster Scylla and a whirlpool Charybdis. Charybdis is the trend in New Testament scholarship which churns up a centuries-old status quo. It makes ...

"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 ...

The Return is the first time Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche have worked together since 1996’s The English Patient (Picture: Maila Iacovelli) There’s the obvious attraction of filming a ...