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The tallest hill on the island, called Monte Guardia, still has the rotting stumps of the extinct giant trees over eight feet wide. Crops are grown on these terraces like grapes for wine and cactus pears and fig trees. Ponza is also suspected to be the island of Aeaea in Homer's Odyssey, as the island of Circe the sorceress, where her cave or ...
Aeaea, Ææa or Eëä (/ iː ˈ iː ə / ee-EE-ə or / ə ˈ iː ə / ə-EE-ə; Ancient Greek: Αἰαία, romanized: Aiaíā [ai̯.ǎi̯.aː]) was a mythological island said to be the home of the goddess-sorceress Circe. "Circe would fain have held me back in her halls, the guileful lady of Aeaea, yearning that I should be her husband".
The Matterhorn in the European Alps is an example of such a peak. Where cirques form one behind the other, a cirque stairway results, as at the Zastler Loch in the Black Forest . As glaciers can only originate above the snowline, studying the location of present-day cirques provides information on past glaciation patterns and on climate change.
Circeii was an ancient Roman city on the site of modern San Felice Circeo and near Mount Circeo, the mountain promontory on the southwest coast of Italy.The area around Circeii and Mount Circeo was thickly populated with Roman villas and other buildings, of which the remains of many can still be seen.
Greenland (Denmark) - geographically a part of the continent of North America, politically and culturally associated with Europe. Iceland - traverses the border between the North American and the Eurasian continental plates , politically and culturally associated with Europe.
And they row about till the cock crows, when they suddenly vanish and the cries of children are heard in the air. Then the people know that there has been a death somewhere in the region, and that the Sidhe have been stealing the young mortal children, and leaving some ill-favoured brat in the cradle in place of the true child. [8]
Population figures for Swedish island Södermalm does not include the population of the smaller, nearby islands Reimersholme and Långholmen, neither is the population of Hammarby Sjöstad. Population figures (as of 31 December 2013) of Swedish islands Södermalm and Kungsholmen are calculated from.
Odysseus and Calypso in the caves of Ogygia. Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625). Ogygia (/ oʊ ˈ dʒ ɪ dʒ i ə /; Ancient Greek: Ὠγυγίη, romanized: Ōgygíē [ɔːɡyɡíɛː], or Ὠγυγία Ōgygíā [ɔːɡyɡíaː]) is an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, Book V, as the home of the nymph Calypso, the daughter of the Titan Atlas.