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 | | To some of the people who come to this island, Achilles appears in dreams, to others he would appear even during their navigation, if they were not too far away, and would instruct them as to which part of the island they would better anchor their ships” (Periplus, Ponti euxini, 32, 33). |
 | | The heroic cult of Achilles in Leuce island was widespread in Graeco – Roman antiquity, not only in the big commercial centers of the Black Sea, but even in different ports and maritime cities of the Archipelagos and the Adriatic Sea, whose economic interests were tightly connected to the riches of the Black Sea. |
 | | From all this, and especially from Arctinos’ account, from the precise information transmitted by Pliny and Mela, and finally, from the sacred cult of Achilles in Leuce Island, results in a wholly convincing way, that the ashes of this great hero of the Trojan times were brought to and laid in Leuce Island. |
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