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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 a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast Charybdis [kə′rib·dəs] (oceanography) Charybdis Poseidon’s daughter; monster of the deep. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] See : Monsters
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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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