{"id":52052,"date":"2021-11-16T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T10:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=52052"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:18:48","slug":"laestrygonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/laestrygonians\/","title":{"rendered":"Laestrygonians"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a><strong>L<\/strong><\/a><strong>aestrygonians, <\/strong>we are told by Homer were mythical giants encountered by Odysseus on his return journey to Ithaca.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Wikipedia tells us that <em>&#8220;according to\u00a0<\/em><em>Thucydides (6.2.1.) and Polybius (1.2.9) the Laestrygones inhabited southeast Sicily. The name is akin to that of the Lestriconi, a branch of the Corsi people of the northeast coast of Sardinia (now Gallura).&#8221;<\/em> Later Greeks believed that the Laestrygonians, as well as the\u00a0Cyclopes, had once inhabited Sicily.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>&#8220;According to historian Angelo Paratico, the Laestrygonians were the result of a legend originated by the sight of Greek sailors of the Giants of Mont&#8217;e Prama, recently excavated in Sardinia. <\/em>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/berard-victor\/\">Victor B\u00e9rard<\/a> had also suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sardinia-amended\/\">Sardinia<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Some writers have also sought to attribute a historical reality to the Laestrygonians, often proposing locations very different from those of Thucydides and Polybius. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sweeney-emmet-john\/\">Emmet Sweeney<\/a> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">700<\/a>.23]<\/sup> has noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/graves-robert\/\">Robert Graves<\/a>, who invariably placed the Greek myths in a Mediterranean setting, suggested that the home of the Laestrygonians was to be found in the far north of Europe, in the Land of the Midnight Sun!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Equally exotic is the suggestion from Gerard W.J. Janssen of Leiden University, who places the voyages of Odysseus in the Atlantic<sup>(b)<\/sup>. However, although he situates most of the places visited in the eastern Atlantic, he does claim<sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0that\u00a0Homer\u2018s Laestrygonians were to be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cuba\/\">Cuba<\/a>, an interpretation supported by both Th\u00e9ophile Cailleux and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilkens-iman-jacob\/\">Iman Wilkens<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/homerusodyssee.nl\/id70.htm\">LAISTRUGONIACUBA, LA HAVANA (homerusodyssee.nl)<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/38535990\/ATLANTIC_OGUGIA_AND_KALUPSO?email_work_card=view-paper\">https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/38535990\/ATLANTIC_OGUGIA_AND_KALUPSO?email_work_card=view-paper<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laestrygonians, we are told by Homer were mythical giants encountered by Odysseus on his return journey to Ithaca. Wikipedia tells us that &#8220;according to\u00a0Thucydides (6.2.1.) and Polybius (1.2.9) the Laestrygones inhabited southeast Sicily. 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