Homer described the Atlantic region of Europe in his account of the wanderings of Ulysses.
The wanderings of Ulysses, as detailed in the "Odyssey" of Homer, are strangely connected with the Atlantic Ocean.
The island of Calypso appears also to have been in the Atlantic Ocean, twenty days' sail from the Phæacian isles; and when Ulysses goes to the land of Pluto, "the under-world," the home of the dead, he
Ulysses's wanderings were a prolonged struggle with Poseidon, the founder and god of Atlantis.
In the Odyssey, Hermes is sent to Calypso to release Ulysses.
The book also names Herakles, Psyche, Cetus and Ulysses, Pollux and others.