White island
In the Greek Mythology, the White Island or Leucé (in Greek old ἡ Λευκὴ νῆσος / He Leukề nễsos ) is a place of the Enfers, one of the entries of the kingdom of deaths.
It is a wild and timbered place, where festivals and banquets are held constantly, described in particular by Pausanias, which makes of it the stay of several heroes of the Trojan War after their death: Achilles, both Ajax, Antiloque, Hector, Helene, Iphigénie and Patrocle.
One usually identifies it in the island of Leucé ( Fidonisi in modern Greek and Russian Zmeinyy in ), located at the mouth of the the Danube. Achilles was in fact venerated in the septentrional part of the Black Sea, colonized by the Milésiens. According to authors like David B. Monro or Gregory Nagy, a epopee of the Trojan Cycle as Éthiopide reflects this colonization precisely. It is however certain that the Greek paradisiac places were always located in remote grounds, following the example mythical Ethiopia from which the hero Memnon comes, classically located at the East at the time antiquated. In the cycle argonautic, the nave Argo voyage also at sea Black. In addition, of the Greek contacts with this area were attested before the antiquated age.
Certain authors still place it at broad of the Crete.
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