Cassiterides Islands: in the borders of reality

Abstract

Cassiterides Islands are mentioned, since the first moments in the texts, as a place of the western extremes, where the valuable products proceed. Any way, the attraction of wealthy rises the imagination. In references apparently far of epic traditions, tha names on Artabri, cited as a people from Norwest of Iberian Peninsula, can do allu- sion to the region of South of Galicia and North of Portugal, «last of Lusitania through North and South West», as a border and mysterious space.

Keywords

• regiones extremas
• minas
• mitología griega