Scylla
c. 800 BCE – 400 CEattested
Strait of Messina
- Greek
Six-headed monster guarding one side of the strait while Charybdis whirled on the other. Odysseus chose to lose six men to her rather than risk the whole ship, and the phrase stuck.
Known for
- six heads
- between Scylla and Charybdis
- a calculated sacrifice
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.