Charybdis – an Innovative Fountain with Myths Involved
The myth: The sirens Charybdis and Scylla resided in the Sicilian Sea. Homer tells us that because Charybdis had stolen the oxen of Hercules, Zeus struck her with a thunderbolt and changed her into a whirlpool whose vortex swallowed up ships. The fountain: In Charybdis the circular movement of water inside a …