In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus washes ashore on Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians.
Rudbeck, Ignatius Donnelly, Adolf Schulten and Richard Hennig had already noticed that Scheria looks like Atlantis.
He also reads Homer's sailing directions to Scheria as a route to the North Sea.
Richard Hennig compared Atlantis and Scheria in 1926.
Scheria (Homer’s Odyssey)
Scheria (Homer's Odyssey)
Scheria is the island home of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
Scheria is a remote and peaceful island, far from other human societies.
Odysseus washes ashore on Scheria after his shipwreck.
Scheria is a stop between the fantastic adventures of Odysseus’ wanderings and his return to real life in Ithaca.
The same smith god made the gold and silver dogs that guard the palace of Alcinous on Scheria.
If Scheria is a memory of Atlantis, then these may be memories of Atlantean technology.
Their king Nausithous moved them to Scheria, far from all other people, and built a walled city there.
Their homeland of Scheria is a distant island, as is Atlantis.