SUMMARY: CALYPSO LOCATIONS

From Walter Woodburn Hyde, Ancient Greek Mariners (Oxford 1947) and  H.H. and A. Wolf, Der Weg des Odysseus (Tübingen 1968)

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Malta: our site

("Navel of the sea," midway between Europe and Africa and in the central channel which separates the eastern and western basins of the Mediterranean)

Many identifications: in the Aegean and North Seas

Péregril ("Monkey Island") in the Gibraltar straits

Teneriffe and Gomera (Canaries)

the Madeira islands west of Morocco

On or off the heel of the Italian boot

An island in the Danube River

The North Pole*
*[W.F. Warren [pres. of Boston University 1873-1902], Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole (Boston 1885): He considers Odysseus' voyage an imaginary circumnavigation of the mythical earth in the upper or Northern hemisphere including… a visit to the North Pole (the navel of the sea).]

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