The Islands

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The Islands
Stephen Over
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Mystical

• Island creation and destruction as a catalyst for
  mysticism.
• Volcanic activity creates islands, thus the
  existence of islands themselves is mystical.
• The birth of Delos and Rhodes
• Aeolus the keeper of the winds
• Disappearance of Atlantis
• Strange symbolic creatures- Iambulus

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Return to Golden Age

• Islands as paradises
• Flowers that smell so sweet trained hunting dogs
  are unable to hold the trail, because their
  natural sense of smell is balked.
• Plentiful resources.
• Inhabited by strange Barbarians.

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Barbarians of the Islands

• Nudity
• Depravity of marriage and women
• Funeral rights
• Bizarre Birthing
• Depravity of religion stems from the assumption
  that they were trying to perform Greek rituals.
• Oils
• Corruption of deities

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• Savage but not (for the most part the Eulians
  were) blood thirsty.
• Unlike mainland savages
• Isolation
• Cant grow grapes or olives
• Drunkenness, love of imported wine.
• Religious oils made of impure substitues

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Utopias

• Outside the pillar of Heracles, political utopias
  exist.
• Panachae
• No Kings
• Democratic
• The place appears worthy of the gods
• Atlantis
• Iambulus
• Society devoted to education.

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• Panchaia
• Self sufficient
• Isolated
• Highly structured by 3 classes ruled by priests
• Sardinia
• Despite barbaric myths about Sardinian laughter,
  renown for their love of liberty.

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Map of Mediterranean in 450 B.C.