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In Book XII of the Odyssey, Odysseus tells of his passing through the straits of Scylla and Charybdis on the instructions of Circe the sorceress (Figures 11.1–11.3), and explains how he could sail through the horrendous straits safely.
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Paipetis, S.A. (2010). Hydrodynamics of Vortices and the Gravitational Sling. In: The Unknown Technology in Homer. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2514-2_11
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