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Stories of Scylla and Charybdis in Homer and Vergil (Italian)

Pietro Li Causi

subject

LiteratureCharybdisPoetryCreaturesbiologybusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectPerformance artMythologyArtbiology.organism_classificationbusinessmedia_common

description

A comparison between Odyssey's book 12 and Aeneis' book 3 shows some similarities in the handling of the myth: Scylla and Charybdis are hidden creatures, which the reader of both the poems can glimpse only behind the veil of the description of the seers Elenus and Circe. In the Vergilian version, however, there are traces of the rationalizations of the myth operated by Sallust and Lucrece.

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1329632