Aeaea

Other hypothetical locations
Robert Graves (The Greek Myths) identifies the island of Lošinj, near the Istrian peninsula in the north Adriatic Sea, as Aeaea.

Tim Severin (The Ulyssess Voyage) identifies the island of Paxos in the Ionian Sea near the Greek coast as Aeaea.

Aeaea in literature
In Richard Aldington's novel "All Men are Enemies" (1933), Aeaea is the island, "twelve hours from Naples" (obviously mythical), where his heroes meet, and love between them flourishes.

John Banville's 1993 novel Ghosts has a boating party shipwrecked on an unnamed island; one character, Sophie, speculates it is Aeaea; another says, "Yes...yes, Aeaea: you will feel at home, no doubt", a reference to Sophie's Circean nature.

Aeaea as epithet or surname
Aeaea was also used as a surname for several characters in Greek mythology. Medea Aeaea, derived from Aea, the country where her father Aeëtes ruled. It was also a surname of Circe, who was the sister of Aeëtes. Her son Telegonus is likewise mentioned with this surname. It was also a surname of Calypso, who was believed to have inhabited a small island of the name of Aeaea in the straits between Italy and Sicily.