Ogygia is accepted by some as an island in the Mediterranean that was destroyed by an earthquake before the Bronze Age. Many have speculated that Ogygia was Atlantis. Callimachus a Greek scholar who flourished in the 3rd century BC identified the Maltese islands as Ogygia. Others have more specifically named the Maltese island of Gozo as Ogygia. Anton Mifsud has pointed out[209] that Herodotus, Hesiod and Diodorus Siculus have all identified the Maltese Islands with Ogygia.
Strabo declared that Ogygia was to be found in the ‘World Ocean’ or Atlantic. Spanuth argued strongly against this[017 p149].
Homer in his Odyssey identifies Ogygia as the home of Calypso. The Roman poet Catullus writing in the 1st century BC linked Ogygia with Calypso in Malta (i). Mifsud also quotes another Roman of the same period, Albius Tibullus, who identifies Atlantis with Calypso. Other Maltese writers have seen all this as strong evidence for the existence of Atlantis in their region. Delisle de Sales considered Ogygia to be between Italy and Carthage, but opted for Sardinia as the remains of Calypso’s island.
Other researchers such as Geoffrey Ashe and Andrew Collins have opted for the Caribbean as the home of Ogygia. In Ireland, a 17th century book[495] by Roderic O’Flaherty (1629-1718) identified Ogygia with Ireland. More recently another book, The Origin of Culture[217], promotes the same view but offers little hard evidence to support it.
In the Calabria region of southern Italy lies Capo Collone (Cape of Columns). 18th century maps show two islands off the cape named Ogygia and Calypsus offering echoes of Homer’s tale. Additionally, there is a temple to Hera Lacinia at Capo Collone
By way of complete contrast Felice Vinci proposes that the Faeroe Islands include Ogygia. In the same region, Iceland was nominated by Gilbert Pillot as the location of Ogygia and Calypso’s home[742]. Ilias D. Mariolakos, a Greek professor of Geology also makes a strong case(a) for identifying Iceland with Ogygia based primarilyon the writings of Plutarch.
This matter would appear to be far from a resolution.
Other suggested locations are:
Lipsi (Greece) http://www.wiw.gr/english/lipsi_niriedes/
Mljet (Croatia) http://www.adriagate.com/en/croatia/national_parks.aspx?ID=4
Ireland http://www.libraryireland.com/HistoryIreland/Early-Geographical- Accounts.php
Gavdos (Greece) http://paleochorahotels.com/80/paleochora-boating-gavdos-island/
St. Miguel, (Azores) http://www.philipcoppens.com/troy.html
(i) Lib. iv, Eleg. 1
