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| | A Cultural Route (Part 3) |
 | | From the land of the Cyclops Ulysses came to the kingdom of Aeolus, custodian of the winds, who welcomed him and his companions. |
 | | Homer's description of the island of Aeolia and the other geographical evidence led many scholars to identify it with MALTA, for seen from afar its southern shores with their towering, sharp, bronze-green rocks give the impression of a floating island. |
 | | Nor could Ulysses have arrived offshore of Ithaca from Lipari and Stromboli with the aid of Zephyrus, the west wind, as Homer describes, and then return to Aeolia, because the whole of southern Italy and the Straits of Messina fie between these islands and Ithaca. |
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