Did the scylla continue eating people up after Jason and the Argonauts passed her?
Odysseus sails his one remaining ship between Scylla and Charybdis in the Odyssey, and Scylla grabs and eats six of his men. The Odyssey clearly takes place after the Argo expedition, for Nestor, who is an old man in the Odyssey, was one of the Argonauts. However, the Argonautica, the e;ic of the Argo expedition, was written long after the Odyssey, and it’s possible that its author, Apollonius of Rhodes, who patterned his epic on those of Homer, got the idea of Scylla and Charybdis from the Odyssey and put Jason there first. Incidentally, they must have moved between the two incidents. Homer places them at the Striat of Messina, with Scylla on the toe of Italy and Charybdis off the coast of Sicily. The Argo sailed from Iolcos, in eastern Greece, northeastwadr into the Black Sea. Well, Apollonius DID imitate Homer!
