Achilles in the fifth century BC, Pindar had mentioned a cult of Achilles on a "bright island" (φαεννά νᾶσος, "phaenná nâsos") of the Black Sea, while in another of his works, Pindar would retell the story of the immortalized Achilles living on a geographically indefinite Island of the Blest together with other heroes such as his father Peleus and Cadmus. Well known is the connection of these mythological Fortunate Isles (μακαρῶν νῆσοι, "makárôn nêsoi") or the Homeric Elysium with the stream Oceanus which according to Greek mythology surrounds the inhabited world, which should have accounted for the identification of the northern
Achilles Tatius the "Uranologion" of the Jesuit scholar Denis Pétau, with a Latin translation in 1630. The same source also mentions a work of Achilles Tatius on etymology, and another entitled "Miscellaneous Histories". Achilles Tatius' surviving work: Other ancient Greek novelists: Achilles Tatius Achilles Tatius (Greek: Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος) of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek writer of the 2nd century whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the ancient Greek novel or romance "The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon". Eustathius of Thessalonica (in his commentary on Homer's "Odyssey" 14.350), the "Suda", Photius, in his "Bibliotheca" (cod. 87), and the manuscript