According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

According to Critias, 9, 000 years before his lifetime a war took place between those outside the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and those who dwelt within them.

The Atlanteans had conquered the parts of Libya within the Pillars of Hercules as far as Egypt and the European continent as far as Tyrrhenia, and subjected its people to slavery.

* Monte Hacho ( Abila Mons ), the southern of the Pillars of Hercules on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

Flavius and the Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons ; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from North Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.

Plato refers to Gibraltar as one of the Pillars of Hercules along with Jebel Musa or Monte Hacho on the other side of the Strait.

File: PillarsHerculesPeutingeriana. jpg | Pillars of Hercules, representing the Strait of Gibraltar ( 19th-century conjecture of the Tabula Peutingeriana )

The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other, is, classically speaking, referred to as the Pillars of Hercules / Heracles, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses.

Carthage at the time was in such a poor state that its navy was unable to transport his army to Iberia ( Hispania ); instead, Hamilcar had to march it towards the Pillars of Hercules and transport it across the Strait of Gibraltar ( present-day Morocco / Spain ).

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.

Several establishments in Soho, London, have associations with well-known, post-war literary and artistic figures, including the Pillars of Hercules, The Colony Room and the Coach and Horses.

It is also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, or STROG ( Strait Of Gibraltar ), in naval use and as the " Pillars of Hercules " ( Greek: Ηράκλειες Στήλες ) in the ancient world.

Its boundaries were known in antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules.

In some versions, Heracles instead built the two great Pillars of Hercules to hold the sky away from the earth, liberating Atlas much as he liberated Prometheus.

* Pillars of Hercules ( in Italian )

The Pillars of Hercules — Gibraltar ( foreground ) and North Africa ( background )

The Pillars of Hercules (,,, ) was the phrase that was applied in Antiquity to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.

Modern conjectural depiction of the lost western section of the Tabula Peutingeriana, showing a representation of the Pillars of Hercules ( Columne Ercole ).

According to Plato's account, the lost realm of Atlantis was situated beyond the Pillars of Hercules, in effect placing it in the realm of the Unknown.

These two mountains taken together have since then been known as the Pillars of Hercules, though other natural features have been associated with the name.

File: Pillars of Hercules. svg | The columns as depicted in the Spanish coat of arms.

One of the commonly held theories about the origin of the dollar sign derives it from the above personal device, which appeared on the Spanish dollar from which the American one was derived-thus, the two vertical lines on the Dollar Sign ultimately represent the Pillars of Hercules.

Beyond Gades, several important Mauritanian colonies ( in modern-day Morocco ) were founded by the Phoenicians as the Phoenician merchant navy pushed through the Pillars of Hercules and began constructing a series of bases along the Atlantic coast starting with Lixus in the north, then Chellah and finally Mogador.

Strabo notes that the two bronze pillars within the temple, each eight cubits high, were widely proclaimed to be the true Pillars of Hercules by many who had visited the place and had sacrificed to Heracles there.

It was at this congress, that the Greens lay their ideological foundations, proclaiming the famous Four Pillars of the Green Party:

" Their basic religious practices are enumerated in the Five Pillars of Islam, which, in addition to Shahadah, consist of daily prayers ( salat ), fasting during Ramadan ( sawm ), almsgiving ( zakat ), and the pilgrimage to Mecca ( hajj ) at least once in a lifetime.

On the stage at the left side of the Hall of Pillars, amid a veritable garden of flowers, a complete symphony orchestra in black tailcoats played classical music.

* Lena Pillars at Natural Heritage Protection Fund

In " The Last Test " ( 1927 ), the first mention of Shub-Niggurath seems to connect her to Nug and Yeb: " I talked in Yemen with an old man who had come back from the Crimson Desert — he had seen Irem, the City of Pillars, and had worshipped at the underground shrines of Nug and Yeb — Iä!

Tingis ( modern Tangier ), a town at the Pillars of Hercules ( modern Strait of Gibraltar ) became a major trade centre.

* Six Pillars, ( 1934 – 35 ), by Berthold Lubetkin, on Crescent Wood Road, a villa strongly in the spirit of Le Corbusier with eponymous six pillars at street level.

In Lawrence, he succeeded where several before him had failed, at turning T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom into a cogent screenplay by turning the entire book on its head and making it a search for the identity of its author.

* " Text I " of Seven Pillars of Wisdom-a 250, 000 word manuscript by T. E. Lawrence lost at Reading railway station in December 1919.

However, all members of the College receive membership at LA Fitness, a central Oxford gym, and have access to the gym and spa at the Oxford Spires Four Pillars Hotel.

The scene shifts to Squire Western's lodgings in Piccadilly, recommended by the landlord at the Hercules Pillars at Hyde Park Corner, where Sophia is locked in her room.

By December 1919 he had a fair draft of most of the ten books that make up the Seven Pillars of Wisdom but lost it ( except for the introduction and final two books ) when he misplaced his briefcase while changing trains at Reading railway station.

The Carians gathered at the " White Pillars ", on the Marsyas River ( the modern Çine ), a tributary of the Maeander.

Located at Minamiyakata, Sakae-cho, Toyoake City, the site hosts The Shichikokuhyo, or Seven Granite Pillars, with each pillar representing Yoshimoto's seven warlords.

Archer had much to do with introducing Ibsen to the English public by his translation The Pillars of Society, produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 1880.

One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim to perform the Hajj pilgrimage, at least once in his or her lifetime if able to do so, including circumambulation of Kaaba.

Features in the magazine include a news column ; detailed profiles (" Pillars of Society " and " The Young Bloods "); " Affairs of the Nation ", which looks at political scandals ; " Bog Cuttings " which consists of humorous and unusual events outside Dublin ( often bizarre court cases ), " Hush Hush " and " On the beat ", which deals with security and intelligence matters ; and a satirical section, " Craic and Codology ".

It was also used as inspiration for Ken Follett's novel Pillars of the Earth, and ( with a heavily modified central tower ) was used to represent the completed Kingsbridge Cathedral at the end of the 2010 television adaptation.

Horse riding lessons are conducted at BlinkBonnie Equestrian Centre on Pillars Road.