Scylla and Charybdis.
    After safely passing the island of the Sirens, Odysseus and his crew were obliged to navigate between two further perils. Scylla was a monster with twelve feet and six heads of which each had three rows of teeth. She had once been a beautiful nymph but was transformed by Circe. Opposite Scylla’s lair was Charybdis, a giant whirlpool. Forewarned by Circe, the sailors managed to pass Charybdis unscathed but escaped from Scylla only after she had devoured six of them.
    After landing in Thrinacia, some of Odysseus’s men slaughtered catde belonging to Helios (or Hyperion), the sun-god. In retribution, Zeus sent a great storm that destroyed Odysseus’s ship and sent him, clinging to a broken mast, drifting back toward Charybdis. When the mast was sucked into the whirlpool, Odysseus saved himself by clinging to an overhanging branch until the sea disgorged the timber again. He then floated for nine days before landing on the island of Ogygia.
    In modern usage, the phrase “between Scylla and Charybdis” has come to mean caught between two equally hazardous choices.

Listings are arranged under the following headings:
Odysseus, General list; Odysseus, the Lotus-eaters; Odysseus, Polyphemus; Odysseus, Circe; Odysseus in the Underworld; Odysseus and the Sirens; Odysseus, Scylla and Charybdis; Odysseus and Calypso; Odysseus and Leucothea; Odysseus and Nausicaä; Return of Odysseus; Death of Odysseus; Odysseus' Last Voyage