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Charybdis
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Charybdis (kərĭb`dĭs), in Greek mythology, a female monster. Because she stole Hercules' cattle, Zeus hurled her into the sea. There she lay under rocks across from Scylla and sucked in and spewed out huge amounts of water, creating a whirlpool.
Charybdis
Poseidon’s daughter; monster of the deep. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]
See : Monsters
(mathematics, tool)CHARYBDIS - A Lisp program to display mathematical expressions. It is related to MATHLAB.

[Sammet 1969, p. 522].
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The baleful influence of Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, the Scylla and Charybidis of 1970s "High" theory, was joined in the 1980s by the influence of Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida, fusing to create the widely influential fiction of "Post-modernism.
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