Sharen Linder - Killdeer, Illinois USA
Scylla and Charybdis
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Sharen Linder
Scylla and Charybdis
"The sea rushed violently in between them, dividing Italy for Sicily, severing their coasts and washing cities and fields on either side with a narrow strait. Scylla guards the right shore, Charybdis, insatiable, the left. Three times a day the latter, down in the depths of a whirlpool gulps whole tons of wave into her maw, then spews them up again, flailing the heavens with spray." Virgil, Aeneid 3. 418 ff (trans. Day-Lewis) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) :
“The fleet [of Aeneas] made land at evenfall on Zancle's shelving sand. Scylla infests the right-hand coast, the left restless Charybdis; one grasps passing ships and sucks them down to spew them up gain; the other ringed below her hell-black waist with raging dogs.” Ovid, Metamorphoses 13. 729 ff (trans.
Melville)"The Argonauts sailed on in gloom. The Seirenes (Sirens) were behind them, but worse perils lay ahead, at a place where two seas met and shipping came to grief. On one side the sheer cliff of Skylla (Scylla) hove in sight; on the other Kharybdis
(Charybdis) seethed and roared incessantly; while beyond, great seas were booming on the Wandering Rocks." Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 921 ffSharen Linder
Kildeer, Illinois USABlock: lino
Pigment or Ink: Senefelder’s Crayon Black/Graphic
Paper: Rives BFK
Edition: 50