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Charybdis
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<p>Charybdis is a <a href="/facts/Sea_monster/BSvexkYS">sea monster</a> in <a href="/facts/Greek_mythology/M7k4FvW8">Greek mythology</a>. Charybdis, along with the sea monster <a href="/facts/Scylla/IW5nLjhI">Scylla</a>, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as <a href="/facts/Odysseus/CWIIwKBz">Odysseus</a>, <a href="/facts/Jason/UfhGtQkd">Jason</a>, and <a href="/facts/Aeneas/TvWwJQEL">Aeneas</a>. Scholarship locates her in the <a href="/facts/Strait_of_Messina/30mvgb0f">Strait of Messina</a>. </p><p>The idiom "<a href="/facts/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis/caRvuzbh">between Scylla and Charybdis</a>" has come to mean being forced to choose between two similarly dangerous situations. </p>