Get The Pillars Of Hercules PNG. That the romans sailed through the pillars of hercules. The pillars of hercules are the gateway into the mediterranean sea or the mare nostrum, that are guarded by hercules.

A corresponding north african peak not being predominant, the identity of the southern pillar. All around the mediterranean coast, the shores of light. The andalusian emblem shows the figure of hercules and two lions between the two pillars of hercules that tradition situates on either side of the strait of gibraltar.

Diodorus siculus mentions that hercules put the pillars in place as a monument to himself (4.18.4).

The rock of gibraltar in europe and the jebel musa in africa; أعمدة هرقل / aʿmidat hiraql, spanish: The pillars of hercules is everything you could want from a theroux book. See more ideas about hercules, pillars of hercules, herakles.