Antillia
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Antillia or Antilia is a phantom island that was reputed, during the 15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island also went by the n
Andea Bianco, 1436. Antillia at right
Toscanelli's notions of the geography of the Atlantic Ocean. Antillia at the middle-right.
Atlantis
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Atlantis is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations. By describing Atlantis as a naval empire from the west that had conquered
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…Utopian tales of the Fortunate Islands (or Isles of the Blessed) were sung by poets like Homer and Horace. Plato articulated the utopian legend of Atlantis. Ancient writers like Plutarch, Strabo, and, more explicitly, Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy, testified to the existence of the Canary Islands. The names…
A fifteenth-century Latin translation of Plato's Timaeus
The Santorini caldera on 24 June 2022, taken from the International Space Station. From the Minoan eruption event, and the 1964 discovery of Akrotiri on the island, this location is one of many sites purported to have been the location of Atlantis.
The mid-atlantic ridge in the Atlantic
A Faroe Islands postage stamp honoring Janus Djurhuus's poem "Atlantis"