The authors of a recent article in The Daily Beast shared an opinion that according to the legends, “Achilles supposedly went mad and killed the Amazons on the currently famous Zmiiny or Snake island”. Unfortunately, the author missed the target by a hundred miles and missed no less powerful story. The real one. Pliny the … Continue reading In antiquity, Ukrainian Snake island had Colossal statue of Apollo on it that was in the 1st century BC taken to Rome’s Capitolium. Island of Achilles was not far away.