Posted on 09/23/2005 7:37:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
an update:
Odyssey's End? The Search for Ancient Ithaca
Smithsonian Magazine | Fergus M. Bordewich, Photographs by Jeffrey Aaronson
Posted on 04/03/2006 12:48:35 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
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Odyssey's End? The Search for Ancient IthacaSince ancient times, the location of Homer's Ithaca has been one of literature's great conundrums. The third-century B.C. geographer Eratosthenes sighed, "You will find the scene of the wanderings of Odysseus when you find the cobbler who sewed up the bag of the winds." Some dismissed Homer's geography as a poet's clueless guesswork. As the renowned classicist Bernard Knox once put it, "When Homer's characters move to mainland Greece and its western offshore islands, confusion reigns."
by Fergus M. Bordewich
Smithsonian Magazine
Modern scholars have proposed numerous locations, some as far afield as Scotland or the Baltic. The most obvious candidate was the present-day island of Ithaca, which lies east of Cephalonia. But it doesn't fit Homer's description
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