Www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... . Indicateurs dans le détroit de Messine entre Italie andSicily (Strab. p. 24 ; Plin. iii. 87), Scylla à beingplaced le promontoire le nameof Scyllaeum (ce qui pourrait très probablement avoir reachedHomer). Charybde est le tourbillon (whichdoes existent réellement à présent suffisamment pour être adifficulty pour bateaux non pontés) juste à l'extérieur de la terre thespit qui forme le port de*Messana (Strab. p. 268) : Mais le whirlpoolwas souvent, semble-t-il censé être mettent immédiatement en teur en face Scyllaeum pr. au Cap Pelorus,neuf milles plus N., où il y a souvent une nodoubt s

• Contributeur: The Reading Room
• ID de l’image: 2AJFF5T
• Taille du fichier: 7,2 MB (275,5 KB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 1888 x 1324 px | 32 x 22,4 cm | 12,6 x 8,8 inches | 150dpi

Informations supplémentaires

Cette image appartient au domaine public, ce qui signifie que le droit d’auteur a expiré ou que le titulaire du droit d’auteur a renoncé à ses droits. Les frais facturés par Alamy couvrent l’accès à la copie haute résolution de l’image.

Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.

www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... . ised inthe Straits of Messina between Italy andSicily (Strab. p. 24; Plin. iii. 87), Scylla beingplaced at the Promontory Scyllaeum (the nameof which may very possibly have reachedHomer). Charybdis is the whirlpool (whichdoes actually exist now sufficiently to be adifficulty for undecked boats) just outside thespit of land which forms the harbour of*Messana (Strab. p. 268): but the whirlpoolwas apparently often supposed to be immedi-ately opposite Scyllaeum Pr. at Cape Pelorus, nine miles further N., where there is nodoubt often a strong current (Thuc. iv. 24).The myth which grew out of these perils of thesea was that in a cave high up on a rock dweltScylla, a daughter of Crataeis, a fearfulmonster, barking like a dog, with twelve feet, and six long necks and heads, each of whichcontained three rows of sharp teeth. Theopposite rock, which was much lower, con-tained an immense fig-tree, under which dweltCharybdis, who thrice every day swalloweddown the waters of the sea, and thrice threw. Scylla. (From a coin of AgL-igentum.) them up again : both were formidable to theships which had to pass between them. (Od.xii. 73-110, 235-259, 430-444.) Hence the pro-verb, versified by a writer of the thirteenth ceu-tury (the Alexandreis of Philip Gualtier) : Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.(For Charybdis as a proverb for danger cf.Hor. Od. i. 27, 19; Athen. p. 558 ; Cic. Phil. ii.27, 67.) This is the Homeric account. Latertraditions give different accounts of Scyllasparentage. Some describe her as a monsterwith six heads of different animals, or withthree heads (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 650; Eustath. p.1719). One tradition relates that Scylla wasoriginally a beautiful maiden, who often playedwith the nymphs of the sea, and was belovedby the marine god G-laucus, who applied toCirce for means to make Scylla return hislove; but Circe, jealous of the fair maiden, threw magic herbs into the well in whichScylla was wont to b

Recherche dans la banque de photos par tags

• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• bookidclassicaldic
• bookyear1894