{"id":2158,"date":"2010-05-30T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T16:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/phaeacia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:38:31","slug":"phaeacia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/phaeacia\/","title":{"rendered":"Phaeacia"},"content":{"rendered":"

P<\/strong>haeacia<\/strong> was a land described by Homer<\/a> in his epic poem, the O<\/em>dyssey<\/em>, <\/em><\/strong>which is usually equated with\u00a0the legendary island of Scheria<\/a>, identified by many with Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Ignatius Donnelly\u00a0was probably the first to suggest a linkage between Phaeacia and Atlantis. J\u00fcrgen Spanuth<\/a>, as well as Hennig<\/a> and Kluge<\/a>, shared\u00a0 Donnelly<\/a>‘s view,\u00a0 Based on Hennig’s work Spanuth listed 32 items of similarity between Phaeacia and Atlantis in his Atlantis \u2013 The Mystery Unravelled<\/em>[017<\/a>.143]\u00a0<\/sup>and Atlantis of the North[<\/span>015<\/a>.218]<\/span><\/sup>. <\/span><\/span>However,\u00a0 N. Zhirov <\/a>remarked that an equally long list of discrepancies could also be compiled, leaving the question still open.<\/p>\n

There is something of a consensus among scholars that Phaeacia is a reference to the Greek island of Corfu. However, Hennig did not accept that Scheria could be identified with an Adriatic island, instead, he suggested that it was beside Spain.<\/p>\n

An Atlantic location for Homer’s epic poems is advocated by N.R. De Graaf(d)<\/sup>, the Dutch author of the Homeros Explorations<\/em> website(c)<\/sup>. Specifically, he concluded that Scheria can be identified with Lanzarote in the Canaries<\/a> concurring with Iman Wilkens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Armin Wolf who has studied extensively the geography of Homer’s Odyssey <\/em> concluded a paper(b)<\/sup> on the subject as follows – “Scheria, the country of\u00a0<\/em>the Phaeacians, this ideal land described by Homer, was no\u00a0<\/em>fantasy, but nothing else but Greater Greece, <\/em>Magna Graecia<\/em><\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

However, Felice Vinci<\/a> has strongly set Phaeacia in the geographical context of Norway [019<\/a>.21-4]<\/sup>\u00a0and offers a number of similarities between the Vikings and the Phaeacians. Kalju Pattustaja agrees with this identification of the Phaeacians(e)<\/sup> and cites Andres P\u00e4\u00e4bo as being of a similar view. However, it should be noted that P\u00e4\u00e4bo is highly critical of much of Vinci’s work(f)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Roger Coghill<\/a> is a more recent supporter of Scheria, being another name for Atlantis, which he locates near Faro<\/a> in Portugal.<\/a>(g)<\/sup> His views have been contrasted in the media(a)<\/sup> with those of Peter Daughtrey<\/a>, who locates Atlantis not too far away in Silves.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190803175205\/https:\/\/meravista.com\/en\/blogentry\/legendary-city-atl<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> Wayback Machine (archive.org)<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> Homeros Explorations \u2013 Homer, facts or fiction? (homeros-explorations.nl)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup>\u00a0Homer, facts or fiction? | ancient america<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup>\u00a0(81) K.Pattustaja. THE NORDIC ORIGIN OF THE MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION – THE FORGOTTEN FINNIC ROOTS (academia.edu)<\/p>\n

(f) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210101092152\/http:\/\/www.paabo.ca\/reviews\/BalticHomericVinci.html<\/a>
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(g)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250429221554\/https:\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2086\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phaeacia was a land described by Homer in his epic poem, the Odyssey, which is usually equated with\u00a0the legendary island of Scheria, identified by many with Atlantis. Ignatius Donnelly\u00a0was probably the first to suggest a linkage between Phaeacia and Atlantis. J\u00fcrgen Spanuth, as well as Hennig and Kluge, shared\u00a0 Donnelly‘s view,\u00a0 Based on Hennig’s work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1407,2231,884,28,1103,1105,872,533,123,108,1070,7667,3695,3074,7188,2706,1853,1025,866,1102,871,221,1992,51,509,992],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andres-paabo","tag-armin-wolf","tag-cadiz","tag-canaries","tag-corfu","tag-f-kluge","tag-faro","tag-felice-vinci","tag-homer","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-iman-wilkens","tag-kalju-pattustaja","tag-lanzarote","tag-magna-graecia","tag-n-r-de-graaf","tag-norway","tag-peter-daughtrey","tag-phaeacia","tag-portugal","tag-r-hennig","tag-roger-coghill","tag-scheria","tag-silves","tag-spanuth","tag-vikings","tag-zhirov"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69449,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/69449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}