Charybdis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 09, 2020 05:13 PM
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History
Charybdis was a sea monster that was rationalized in the form of a whirlpool located in the Strait of Messina.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462157
38.260268, 15.660384
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 23176 (550 BC - AD 300)
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- Charybdis (550 BC - AD 300)
- Charybdis connection Siculum Fretum (unspecified date range)
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whirlpool
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 H2 Charybdis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Cariddi (whirlpool)
R.J.A. Wilson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Charybdis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462157> [accessed: 29 May 2023]
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