 The Lotus Eaters are in the Gulf of Sidra; the Cyclops and Aeolus are both to be found in the Balearic Isles; the island of Circe is Ischia in the Bay of Naples; most unexpectedly, Scherie is Cyprus.Translator Samuel Butler developed a controversial theory that the "Odyssey" came from the pen of a young Sicilian woman, who presents herself in the poem as Nausicaa, and that the scenes of the poem reflected the coast of Sicily, especially the territory of Trapani and its nearby islands.He described the "evidence" for this theory in his "The Authoress of the Odyssey" (1897) and in the introduction and footnotes to his prose translation of the "Odyssey" (1900).