ERYTHEIA/GADES/CADIZ

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                                                                 Strabo

 
                                                                Geography


                                                       p55 Book VI, Chapter 2




"...... Now it was not at all necessary to fill out the whole of this circuit, but it was necessary, he thought, to
build up in a better way only the part that was settled — the part adjacent to the Island of Ortygia which had
a sufficient circuit to make a notable city. Ortygia is connected with the mainland, near which it lies, by a bridge, and has the fountain of Arethusa, which sends forth a river that empties immediately into the sea........"



"......Aetna dominates more especially the seaboard in the region of the Strait and the territory of Catana, but
also that in the region of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Liparaean Islands. Now although by night a brilliant light
shines from the summit, by day it is covered with smoke and haze.

9 Over against Aetna rise the Nebrodes Mountains,135 which, though lower than Aetna, exceed it considerably in breadth. The whole island is hollow down beneath the ground, and full of streams and of fire, as is the case with the Tyrrhenian Sea, as far as the Cumaean country, as I have said before.136 275At all events, the island has at many places springs of hot waters which spout up, of which those of Selinus and those of Himera are brackish, whereas those of Aegesta are potable. Near Acragas are lakes which, though they have the taste of sea-water, are different in nature; for even people who cannot swim do not sink, but float on the surface like wood. The territory of the [Palici] has craters137 p93that spout up water in a dome-like jet and receive it back again into the same recess.

The cavern near Mataurus138 contains an immense gallery through which a river flows invisible for a considerable distance, and then emerges to the surface, as is the case with the Orontes in Syria,139 which sinks into the chasm (called Charybdis) between Apameia and Antiocheia and rises again forty stadia away......"


http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/6B*.html

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OK, Mark, I found it:




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     Re: The Myth in Plutarch's 'The Face in the Moon'
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 Here is what Homer says (Odyssey, Book ): "There is an isle, OGYGIA, that lies far off in the sea; there dwells the daughter of Atlas, crafty Calypso, of the braided tresses, an awful goddess, nor is any either of gods or mortals conversant with her. Howbeit, some god brought me to her hearth, wretched man that I am, all alone, for that Zeus with white bolt crushed my swift ship and cleft it in the midst of the wine-dark deep. There all the rest of my good company was lost, but I clung with fast embrace about the keel of the curved ship, and so was I borne for nine whole days. And on the tenth dark night the gods brought me nigh the isle Ogygia, where Calypso of the braided tresses dwells, an awful goddess."




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(Library and Epitome, E 7.22): "And thence he came to THRINACRIA, island of the Sun, where kine were grazing, and being windbound, he tarried there. But when his comrades slaughtered some of the kine and banqueted on them, for lack of food, the Sun reported it to Zeus, and when Ulysses put out to sea, Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt. And when the ship broke up, Ulysses clung to the mast and drifted to Charybdis. And when Charybdis sucked down the mast, he clutched an overhanging wild fig-tree and waited, and when he saw the mast shot up again, he cast himself on it, and was carried across to the island of OGYGIA."


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Mark:

Re:  THRINACRIA is Sicily.  It is still called that today in some quarters, because of its triangular shape.

There are also soccer teams called TRINACRIA in Sicily and other parts of the world. (Canada for one)

Furthermore, CHARIBDYS is mentioned.  Charibdys and Scylla are the two "monsters" one had to face

in ancient times while crossing from Sicily to the Italian mainland.  The reality is the fierce currents in

the Strait of Messina, which is also full of dangerous, large rocks. 


Therefore, by this account, the island of OGYGIA has to be in the Mediterranean..... 


http://atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php/topic,2062.msg19776.html#msg19776

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SICILY





ORTYGIA




 One of the main attractions in visiting this area is the island of Ortygia, which is connected to the mainland city of Syracuse by means of 3 bridges.

The remains of the Temple of Apollo are sited in the Piazza Pancali; this is the oldest Greek temple in Sicily, built around 565 BC.

The cathedral in the nearby Piazza Duomo is uniquely made up of the original walls of a 5th-century
BC Greek temple known as the Athenaion and near the sea, along Via Capodieci, there is the mythical Spring of Arethusa.

Several hours are required to explore the island fully.


http://www.tuscanytennis.com/sicily/

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We can visit on the island of Ortygia, visiting Piazza Pancali
with the ruins of the Temple of Apollo.

Piazza Archimede, dedicated to the illustrious Archimedes,
who was born here.

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Temple of Apollo

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ORTYGIA
Temple of Apollo