The wanderings of Ulysses, as detailed in the "Odyssey" of Homer, are
strangely connected with the Atlantic Ocean. The islands of the
Phoenicians were apparently in mid-ocean:

We dwell apart, afar
Within the unmeasured deep, amid its waves
The most remote of men; no other race
Hath commerce with us.--Odyssey, book vi.

The description of the Phaeacian walls, harbors, cities, palaces, ships,
etc., seems like a recollection of Atlantis. The island of Calypso
appears also to have been in the Atlantic Ocean, twenty days' sail from
the Phaeacian isles; and when Ulysses goes to the land of Pluto, "the
under-world," the home of the dead, he

"Reached the far confines of Oceanus,"

beyond the Pillars of Hercules. It would be curious to inquire how far
the poems of Homer are Atlantean in their relations and inspiration.
Ulysses's wanderings were a prolonged struggle with Poseidon, the
founder and god of Atlantis.

"The Hekatoncheires, or Cetimaeni, beings each with a hundred hands,
were three in number--Kottos, Gyges or Gyes, and Briareus--and
represented the frightful crashing of waves, and its resemblance to the
convulsions of earthquakes." (Murray's "Mythology," p. 26.) Are not
these hundred arms the oars of the galleys, and the frightful crashing
of the waves their movements in the water?

"The Kyklopes also were three in number--Brontes, with his thunder;