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Suspiciously Nice Prof @niceprof.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Day 96 and 97 of 99 Days of Monsters: Scylla and Charybdis! Another twofer since I'll be busy tomorrow. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus has to sail a dangerous channel. On one side is a "gaping maw," the whirlpool creature named Charybdis. On the other side is a ravenous--1/2

A painting of a many headed dog monster eating sailors while a gruesome face on the bottom sucks in water near the ship.

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Suspiciously Nice Prof @niceprof.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

--monster, Scylla, who had 6 toothy heads and a lower half made of multiple dogs. Odysseus chose to survive by sailing closer to Syclla and "only" losing 6 men instead of his whole ship. Alessandro Allori, Scylla and Charybdis from the Ulysses Cycle, 1575, Palazzo Salviati, Florence. 2/2

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