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Ceuta, perched on an isthmus with a promontory historically considered the lesser of the Pillars of Hercules of antiquity, has been a Spanish possession since 1580.

Since they’d left the Pillars of Hercules yesterday evening, Jason had seemed distracted.

The Rock of Gibraltar is part of Plato’s most tantalizing clue: that Atlantis was an island that once sat “in front of the mouth” of the Pillars of Hercules.

Ignoring the warnings of the ancient Phoenicians, I sailed past the legendary Pillars of Hercules, the mountains that flank the Strait of Gibraltar, and didn’t fall off the edge of the world.

In April, two long-lost panels from Meière’s 1960 marble mosaic triptych, “The Pillars of Hercules,” originally commissioned for the Prudential Plaza in Newark, were formally installed at the Center of Hellenic Studies in Washington.