Homeric Thrinacia sat so far north that days were nearly continuous

Evidence

Where shepherd calls to shepherd as one drives in his flocks and the other drives his out and he calls back in answer, where a man who never sleeps could rake in double wages, one for herding cattle, one for pasturing fleecy sheep, the nightfall and the sunrise march so close together. — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 2050

Categorization

• XREF: Accords with later Greek speculation that Thrinacia lay near the Arctic Circle, linking mythology to early geographic knowledge.