Symplegades

American  

[sim-pleg-uh-deez] / sɪmˈplɛg əˌdiz /

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a pair of rocky islands, at the entrance to the Black Sea, that often clashed together: Athena helped the Argonauts navigate them, after which they became fixed.

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Symplegades

He gave them wise advice, too, about the dangers before them, in especial about the Clashing Rocks, the Symplegades, that rolled perpetually against one another while the sea boiled up around them.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

But not until long afterward did they come to the Symplegades, the passage that was to be their great trial.

From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

Life grew slow in the little drowsy seaport; the old tales of the Symplegades were stale and tedious; the Argonauts had become spiritless and corpulent and lazy.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

For Apsyrtus had not gone toward the Symplegades seeking the Argo.

From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

Such were the Symplegades, which, charmed by the harp of the wind-god Orpheus, parted to make way for the talking ship Argo, with its crew of solar heroes.

From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske