Geography of the Odyssey from historical inquiries that Hesiod had made. The 2nd century BC poet-historian Apollodorus of Athens sympathises with Eratosthenes, believing that Homer imagined the wanderings as having taken place in a kind of fairyland in the Atlantic; he actively criticises the standard identifications in and around Sicily, and refuses to offer any identifications of his own. The 2nd century BC historian Polybius discusses the wanderings in book 34 of his history. He refutes Apollodorus' idea that the wanderings were in the Atlantic on the basis of "Odyssey" 9.82, where Odysseus says that he sailed for nine days from Cape Malea in
The Colossus of Rhodes (film) 1960s were set in either classical Greece or even earlier ("Hercules," "Ulysses," "The Giant of Marathon") or the later Roman period ("Ben Hur," "The Magnificent Gladiator," "Quo Vadis"). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are "Hannibal" (1959), "Revak the Rebel" and "Siege of Syracuse" (both 1960). A Greek military hero named Darios (Rory Calhoun) visits his uncle Lissipu (George Rigaud) on the island of Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossal statue of the god Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance