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Übersetzung für 'Scylla' von Englisch nach Deutsch

Scylla

Skylla {f} [Meeresungeheuer]myth.

Szylla {f} [Meeresungeheuer]myth.

Scylla {f} [Meeresungeheuer]myth.

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between Scylla and Charybdis [idiom]

zwischen Skylla und Charybdis [Redewendung]

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to be between Scylla and Charybdis [idiom]

zwischen Szylla und Charybdis sein / stehen [Redewendung]

• Scylla {f} [Meeresungeheuer] = Scylla

• Its name, together with Scylla's, is a reference to the ancient Greek legend of Scylla and Charybdis.
• "Hemipenthes scylla" is a species of bee flies in the family Bombyliidae.
• The title refers to Scylla and Charybdis, two sea monsters from Greek mythology.
• Other authors have Hecate as Scylla's mother. The Hesiodic "Megalai Ehoiai" gives Hecate and Apollo as the parents of Scylla, while Acusilaus says that Scylla's parents were Hecate and Phorkys (so also schol. ...
• The Latin equivalent was the seafaring idiom 'He runs on Scylla, wishing to avoid Charybdis' ("incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim"), a parallel pointed out by Edmund Arwaker in the moral that follows his verse treatment of the fable.

• In "The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children", Charles Kingsley characterized Scylla as "Scylla the sea hag".