It's not just some missile outpost. It's the grave of Achilles and has been sacred since the most ancient times.
The island was named by the Greeks Leuke (Greek: Λευκή, 'White Island') and was similarly known by Romans as Alba, probably because of the white marble formations that can be found on the isle.
Other urls found in this thread:
According to Dionysius Periegetes, it was called Leuke, because the serpents there were white.[15] According to Arrian, it was called Leuke due to its color.[16] He and Stephanus of Byzantium mentioned that the island was also referred to as the Island of Achilles (Greek: Ἀχιλλέως νῆσος[16] and Ἀχίλλεια νῆσος[17]) and the Racecourse of Achilles (Δρόμον Ἀχιλλέως[16] and Ἀχίλλειος δρόμος[17]).
The island was sacred to the hero Achilles and had a temple of the hero with a statue inside. Solinus wrote that on the island there was a sacred shrine.
the real snake island is off brazil
According to Arrian in the temple there were many offerings to Achilles and Patroclus. Furthermore, people came to the island and sacrificed or set animals free in honour of Achilles. He also added that people said that Achilles and Patroclus appeared in front of them as hallucinations or in their dreams while they were approaching the coast of the island or sailing a short distance from it. Pliny the Elder wrote that the tomb of the hero was on the island. According to the legend, on the island no bird flew higher than the temple of Achilles.
According to Greek myths the island was created by Poseidon for Achilles and Helen to inhabit, but also for sailors to have an island to anchor at the Euxine Sea, but the sailors should never sleep on the island. According to a surviving epitome of the lost Trojan War epic of Arctinus of Miletus, the remains of Achilles and Patroclus were brought to this island by Thetis, to be put in a sanctuary, furnishing the aition, or founding myth of the Hellenic cult of Achilles centred here. According to another myth Thetis gave the island to Achilles and let him live there. The oracle of Delphi sent Leonymus (other writers called him Autoleon) to the Island, telling him that there Ajax the Great would appear to him and cure his wound. Leonymus said that on the island he saw Achilles, Ajax the Great, Ajax the Lesser, Patroclus, Antilochus and Helen. In addition, Helen told him to go to Stesichorus at Himera and tell him that the loss of his sight was caused by her wrath. Pomponius Mela wrote that Achilles was buried there.
plz just get to your point.
>there are at least three underwater temples which are unexcavated
Don't you get it? The island's the grave of one of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology.
this is such lame cope
the greeks shipped him all the way over to south africa just to bury him? man his body must have already decomposed by the time they got there, let alone even knew about the continent