Scylla Collection

Imperial Airways Poster, four types of plane
Imperial Airways Poster, showing four types of plane, with cutaway drawings of interiors of each class -- Heracles and Hannibal, Scylla, Atalanta, and Scipio. 20th century

The Odyssey / Scylla
Scylla, the six-headed monster who lived in a cave next to the deadly whirlpool Charybdis, attacks Odysseus men

Cartoon, Britannia between Scylla & Charybdis, or, the Vessel of the Constitution steered clear of the Rock of Democracy, and the Whirlpool of Arbitrary Power, by James Gillray

Service aboard Short L17 Scylla G-ACJJ of Imperial Airways
Service aboard Short L17 Scylla, G-ACJJ, of Imperial Airways

Short L17 Scylla G-ACJJ
Short L17 Scylla, G-ACJJ

Four Bristol Jupiter Engine - Imperial Airways liner Scylla
The Four Bristol Jupiter Engine of the Imperial Airways liner Scylla - Wonders of World Aviation part 17, June 1938 Date: 1938

Imperial Airways Scylla Air Liner Saloon - flirst flight in 1934, retired in 1940. A British four-engined 39-seat biplane airliner designed and built by Short Brothers Date: circa 1935

Four Bristol engines of Imperial Airways Airliner Scylla Date: 1938

Ulysses and His Companions escaping the Sirens, passing between Scylla and Charybdis. Date: circa 1790

The Porta all Arco, Etruscan door in the walls of Volterra, Tuscany. Decorated with three heads of Jupiter, Castor and Pollux (or Tinia, Uni and Menrva in Etruscan mythology)

Scylla & Charybdis / Map
Map showing the location of Scylla, the six-headed monster who lived in a cave next to the deadly whirlpool Charybdis, in Sicily

Gossip about Fairies 38
Scylla, a beautiful water nymph, is beloved by Glaucus, but a jealous rival, Circe, will turn her into a monster with six heads, each with three rows of teeth

Short L17 Scylla pre-delivery

Scylla L17 biplane on an airfield
The Scylla L17 British four-engine biplane, designed and built by Short Brothers. It was used by Imperial Airways for scheduled flights between London and various European cities

Short L17 Scylla G-ACJJ and Syrinx G-ACJK
Short L17 Scylla, G-ACJJ, and Syrinx, G-ACJK, of Imperial Airways

Short L17 Scylla G-ACJJ of Imperial Airways
Short L17 Scylla, G-ACJJ, of Imperial Airways

Short L17 Scylla G-ACJJ of Imperial Airways at Croydon
Short L17 Scylla, G-ACJJ, of Imperial Airways at Croydon

A de Havilland DH86 G-ACPL (foreground)
A de Havilland DH86, G-ACPL (foreground); Handley Page HP42, G-aXja; two Short L17s, G-ACJJ, Scylla and G-ACJK, Syrinx, and a Boulton & Paul P71A, G-ACOX, Boadicea, of Imperial Airways

Imperial Airways Poster, Switzerland
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a Scylla passenger plane flying to Switzerland, with a mermaid and merman looking up in wonder. 1935

Charybdis

Scylla, the Sea monster

Glaucus the Sea-God
Glaucus - fisherman turned into a sea- god by accident - meets the water-nymph Scylla and instantly falls in love with her, but Circe, jealous, turns her into a monster

Scylla into Lark
Scylla, daughter of Nisus but in love with his enemy Minos, betrays him, but Minos is appalled at her behaviour and rejects her, whereupon she is transformed into a lark

Scylla & Charybdis
The maelstroms of Scylla and Charybdis off the coast of Sicily

Scylla into Monster
A nymph beloved by the sea-god Glaucus, she arouses the jealousy of the witch Circe who turns her into a monster, her limbs changing into the heads of dogs !

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