Editing Symplegades (section)

==In literature==
[[Lord Byron]] refers to the Symplegades in the concluding stanzas of ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'':
{{poemquote|And from the Alban Mount we now behold
Our friend of youth, that ocean, which when we
Beheld it last by Calp's rock unfold
Those waves, we follow on till the dark Euxine roll'd
Upon the blue Symplegades&nbsp;...}}

The [[New Criticism|New Critic]] [[I. A. Richards]] refers to 'Symplegades' in his work [[Practical Criticism]]. In Chapter 2, 'Figurative Language', he refers to dangers of misinterpretation in reading poems:
"These twin dangers - careless, 'intuitive' reading and prosaic, 'over-literal' reading - are the Symplegades, the 'justling rocks', between which too many ventures into poetry are wrecked."

In his 1961 novel ''Jason'', [[Henry Treece]] depicts the Symplegades as icebergs that drifted downriver into the Black Sea.