Massimo Rapisarda is an Italian physicist from Catania in Sicily, who has opted for the Strait of Sicily as the location of the Pillars of Heracles and that Atlantis itself was situated in the vicinity of Marsala on the western end of Sicily. This city is located on the site of Lilybaeum, the main Carthaginian stronghold on the island.

Rapisarda is somewhat sceptical regarding the details of Plato’s story, but accepts that it might have been compatible with an existence in the Western Mediterranean at the end of the last Ice Ace.