Pytheas

British  

/ ˈpɪθɪəs /

noun

1. 4th century _bc , Greek navigator. He was the first Greek to visit and describe the coasts of Spain, France, and the British Isles and may have reached Iceland

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Example Sentences

The Romans believed that “Ultima Thule,” first mentioned by the Greek explorer Pytheas, was an island beyond Britain that marked the edge of the known world.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021

Mercator based his map on a theory proposed 1,800 years earlier by Pytheas, the first Greek to breach the Strait of Gibraltar and check out the Atlantic for himself.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2021

Sometime around 330 BCE, roughly the same time Alexander the Great was heading off to conquer the Persian Empire, Pytheas evaded the Carthaginian blockade and sailed into Atlantic waters.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

It was supposedly discovered by Greek explorer Pytheas, and became part of the Greek idea of what lay in the north.

From National Geographic • Dec. 9, 2017

Around 300, an explorer named Pytheas sailed a ship through the Straits of Gibraltar, turned north, and circumnavigated the British Isles.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro