“So we rowed through the narrow strait in tears,
On one side Scylla, on the other, shining
Charybdis with a dreadful gurgling noise
sucked down the water.”*
If you enjoy tales from the deep, you will know all about Ulysses, the hero of Homer’s epic poem, “The Odyssey.” The many ordeals he and his crew endured on their peripatetic journey home from Troy included sailing their ship past beguiling sirens and then charting a path between two terrible sea monsters: Scylla and Charybdis.