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- Orichalcum appears in many other places in classical Greek and Roman writings (for example, the Homeric Hymns assign gold and orichalcum ornaments to Aphrodite) but it's the Atlantis reference that it's remembered for.
Source: Orichalcum - The Homeric use of this made it into a standard convention of epic poetry, and the much later (and Roman) Aeneid begins in much the same way, with Aeneas' fleet threatened by a divine storm while en route to Italy.
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Roman and Homeric. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/homeric/roman
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