Aeolia (Ancient Greek:Αἰολία,romanized: Aiolía), the island kingdom ofAeolus, the ruler of the winds, visited byOdysseus inHomer'sOdyssey. In theOdyssey, Aeolus' Aeolia was afloating island surrounded by "a wall of unbreakable bronze" where the "cliffs run up shear."[1]
Homer does not say anything about where the island was located, but later writers came to associate Aeolia with one or another of theLipari Islands (also called the Aeolian Islands), north of eastern Sicily.[2] The Greek geographerStrabo reports that Strongyle (modernStromboli), one of the Lipari Islands, was said to be Aeolus' island.[3] Others associated the island of Lipara (modernLipari) with Aeolia.[4]
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