Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia, particularly because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki. This highly illustrated book tells the extraordinary story of the exciting recent discovery of the true location of Homer's Ithaca by following a detective trail of literary, geological and archaeological clues. We can now identify all the places on the island that are mentioned in the epic - even the ...
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Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia, particularly because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki. This highly illustrated book tells the extraordinary story of the exciting recent discovery of the true location of Homer's Ithaca by following a detective trail of literary, geological and archaeological clues. We can now identify all the places on the island that are mentioned in the epic - even the site of Odysseus' Palace itself. The pages of the Odyssey come alive as we follow its events through a landscape that opens up before our eyes via glorious colour photographs and 3D satellite images. Over a century after Schliemann's discovery of Troy, this breakthrough will revolutionise our understanding of Homer's texts and of our cultural ancestors in Bronze Age Greece.
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This is an intriguing story of the author?s search for, and possible finding of, the Ithaca described in Homer?s Odyssey. The result is that the location found by the author fits all of the descriptions of Ithaca in the Odyssey (unlike the island currently referred to as Ithaca). In fact, it so matches the descriptions that the author concludes that ?Homer? must have been intimately familiar with ?Ithaca? to have made such precise descriptions. The author also has as explanation, supported by a geologist, as to why his ?Ithaca? is no longer an island, but once was. The author's arguments, while falling just short of compelling, are thorough, reasoned and logical; and his conclusions are not only possible, but, I think, probable. While the description sounds a little boring (and the answer to a question few of us have ever asked), the book is both interesting and entertaining. In its own way, it is the most interesting book I have read in years.
