Book XII · Episode 3 of 5
Through Scylla’s Strait
Crew braves Scylla and Charybdis
Scenes
- Nearing the Strait — Odysseus defies Circè, arms himself
- Mist and thunderous surf terrify the crew
- Oars slip as the ship stalls dead
- He recalls escaping the Cyclops’s cave
- He disobeys Circè’s warning against arming
- He cannot spot Scylla among the cliffs
- Scylla Seizes Six — Scylla snatches six, devours them screaming
- Men dread Charybdis as it looms
- She seizes six of the strongest, unseen
- They dangle and cry his name
- He likens it to jerking hooked fish
- He calls it his saddest sight ever