Aeolia (mythical island)
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Aeolia (mythical island)
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Aeolia, the island kingdom of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, visited by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. In the Odyssey, Aeolus' Aeolia was purely mythical, a floating island surrounded by "a wall of unbreakable bronze" where the "cliffs run up shear". Homer does not say anything about where the island was located, but later writers came to associate Aeolia with one, or another, of the Lipari Islands, north of eastern Sicily. The Greek geographer Strabo, reports that Strongyle, one of the Lipari Is
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Location in Greek myth
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2023-04-15T07:11:26Z
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