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Fortunate Isles
The
Fortunate Isles
or
Isles of the Blessed
(,
makárôn nêsoi
) were semi-legendary islands in the
Atlantic Ocean
, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly
paradise
inhabited by the
heroes
of
Greek mythology
. The related idea of
Brasil
and other islands in
Celtic mythology
are sometimes conflated with the Greek sense of islands in the western Mediterranean:
Sicily
, the
Aeolian Islands
, the
Aegadian Islands
or other smaller islands of Sicily. Later on the islands were said to lie in the
Western Ocean
near the encircling River
Oceanus
;
Madeira
,
Canary Islands
,
Azores
,
Cape Verde
,
Bermuda
and
Lesser Antilles
have sometimes been cited as possible matches.
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