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Pillars of Hercules

noun

The two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules.

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... cargo, but it was Sidon first and then (with even more determination and endurance) Tyre which took the initiative and the conduct of the movement; it was the mariners of these two towns who, with eyes fixed on the setting sun, pushed their explorations as far as the Pillars of Hercules, and eventually even further."[4106] The last and least important of the Phoenician "worlds" was the southern one, extending sixty miles from Carmel to Joppa—a tract from which the Phoenician character was well ...

— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

Words linked to "Pillars of Hercules" : geological formation, Calpe, Abyla, Rock of Gibraltar, Abila, formation, Gibraltar, Jebel Musa, Strait of Gibraltar