Thule
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Thule
Boreas: The north wind. In classical times, the Arctic was seen as the deliverer of the north wind (Boreas), bringing the ice and snow of winter with it to the south. So the arctic was a concept known to Mediterranean philosophers and Europeans long before any sailors ventured north to find it
Translation by Frank Justus Miller from the Loeb Classical Library 1917 edition:[14]
There will come an age in the far-off years
when Ocean shall unloose the bounds of things,
when the broad whole Earth shall be revealed,
when Tethys shall disclose new worlds
and Thule not be the limit of the lands.
There will come an age in the far-off years
when Ocean shall unloose the bounds of things,
when the broad whole Earth shall be revealed,
when Tethys shall disclose new worlds
and Thule not be the limit of the lands.
Medea (Seneca)
Terra Australis (Latin for 'Southern Land') was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that continental land in the Northern Hemisphere should be balanced by land in the Southern... See more
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
The captain’s testimony, on returning, was that he had sailed the ship for twenty days and nights through such violent seas and winds that he could not tell where they were. Then, after the twentieth day, they caught sight of the island of Britain, whose inhabitants were suffering terribly in a great famine. On landing, they told ‘the chief man of
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