Editing Charybdis (section)

===The ''Odyssey''===
[[File:Scylla and Charybdis.jpg|thumb|A 19th-century engraving of the Strait of Messina, the site associated with Scylla and Charybdis]] [[Odysseus]] faced both Charybdis and Scylla while rowing through a narrow channel. He ordered his men to avoid Charybdis, thus forcing them to pass near Scylla, which resulted in the deaths of six of his men. Later, stranded on a raft, Odysseus was swept back through the strait and passed near Charybdis. His raft was sucked into her maw, but he survived by clinging to a fig tree growing on a rock over her lair. On the next outflow of water, when his raft was expelled, Odysseus recovered it and paddled away safely.<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 12.[http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey12.htm#_Toc90268048 201–59 & 430–50]</ref>