Scheria is the name of a Phaeacian island mentioned by Homer in his Odyssey and identified by some as Atlantis. Scheria has been noted as only second to Atlantis for the array locations ascribed to it. For example, Heinrich Schliemann considered Scheria to have been Corfu, Felice Vinci suggests Norway and Iman Wilkens[610] offers the Canaries. Armin Wolf (1935- ), the German historian, suggests(b) Calabria in Southern Italy and even more controversially that the Phaeacians were in fact Phoenicians!
Daniel Fleck(a) lists ten similarities between the two. Jürgen Spanuth[015] quoted and added to an even more extensive list of comparisons between Scheria and Atlantis compiled by R. Hennig. Walter Leaf perceived a connection between the two and wrote accordingly[434]. Edwin Björkman went further and wrote a book[181] that linked Tartessos, Scheria and Atlantis. The name Scheria itself is thought by some to be derived from the Phoenician word ‘schera’, which means marketplace, which is not incompatible with Plato’s description of Atlantis as a hive of commercial activity.
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