Lectonia

A land thought by some to have existed in the Mediterranean, and to have connected Greece with Asia. According to the Pseudo-Orphic account, Poseidon being angry with Zeus, struck Lectonia with his trident and buried it in the sea, leaving only scattered islands to recall its past. This tradition has been received with credence by some geographers and scholars, who regard the numerous small islands between Greece and Asia Minor as making probable a former land-connection which facilitated the early immigration from Asia into Europe. See Pliny , Pliny H. N. ii. 90; Diod. Sic.v. 47.