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Scylla - translation to french
![''Glaucus and Scylla'' by [[Bartholomeus Spranger]] (c.1581)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bartholomäus Spranger 006.jpg?width=200 "''Glaucus and Scylla'' by [[Bartholomeus Spranger]] (c.1581)")
![[[J. M. W. Turner]]'s painting of Scylla fleeing inland from the advances of Glaucus (1841)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Glaucus and Scylla’, 1841.jpg?width=200 "[[J. M. W. Turner]]'s painting of Scylla fleeing inland from the advances of Glaucus (1841)")
![Scylla figurine, late 4th BC. [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scylla figurine.jpg?width=200 "Scylla figurine, late 4th BC. [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]")
Definition
Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, Scylla ( SIL-ə; Greek: Σκύλλα, translit. Skúlla, pronounced [skýlːa]) is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa.
Scylla is first attested in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels. Later myth provides an origin story as a beautiful nymph who gets turned into a monster.
Book Three of Virgil's Aeneid associates the strait where Scylla dwells with the Strait of Messina between Calabria, a region of Southern Italy, and Sicily. The coastal town of Scilla in Calabria takes its name from the mythological figure of Scylla and it is said to be the home of the nymph.
The idiom "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being forced to choose between two similarly dangerous situations.
