Search Locates Homer's Ithaca

BBC ^ | 9-29-2005

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[aomagrat]

Search 'locates' Homer's Ithaca

Was it a single shot or a pump.

[Palladin]

I thought it was in upstate New York.

[English Nationalist]

Did they throw blood on his armour?

[dinasour]

I thought Homer lived in Springfield.

[xcamel]

Ok, 'cause Homer Simpsons Ithaca is in NY, and is also the "City of Evil"

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[Parmenio]

Another "amateur British archaeologist". So many original insights come from these "amateurs". Michael Ventris comes to mind - and the cracking of Linear B.

[yarddog]

Something I don't understand is the ancient Greeks knew where Ithaca was. An island around two miles NE of Cephalonia. It was but one of the Islands ruled by Odysseus. Are they saying they didn't know where it was?

I have read that Homer's description fits the Island of Leukas better than Ithaca, but would have to go with the traditional name.

[Taxman]

Well, that is good news. Everyone needs to know where their Ithaca is! Now we know where Homer's was.

My Ithaca (the first non-Damascas barrel hammerless 16 gauge side-by-side Ithaca manufactured), is in my gun safe. I inherited it FRom my dad, who won it FRom a FRaternity Brother in a poker game in 1935 when he was attending what is now the GW law school in WDC.

Homer's Ithaca is too far away to do me much good. Mine is cleaned, oiled and ready and waiting for Dove season! Finest bird gun I have ever shot, and the only one I own.

My Mossberg 590 "Critter Gitter" has an entirely mission!

[drjimmy]

Something I don't understand is the ancient Greeks knew where Ithaca was. An island around two miles NE of Cephalonia. It was but one of the Islands ruled by Odysseus. Are they saying they didn't know where it was?

There is scholarly debate over whether there even was a "Homer" who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. The stories come from an oral tradition, and the first written versions of those stories didn't even come into being until hundreds of years after the events depicted. Of course those events include gods and goddesses, cyclops, sirens, men being turned into swine, etc. So while the ancient Greeks may indeed have known where their own island of Ithaca/Ithaki was, there's a lot standing in the way of knowing whether it and the place depicted in what we know as "The Odyssey" are one and the same.

[Revolting cat!]

Is that where homersexuals come from? You know like the lesbians who come from the Greek island of Lesbos!

[facedown]

It's a pretty interesting technology: NASA World Wind 1.3

[yarddog]

Yes, I know there is debate about Homer but the basic facts of the Illiad and Odyssey seem to stand up to archaelogical study.

I know that Schliemann used the Iliad to locate Troy by using a phrase which showed certain alignment between geographical features. It proved to be accurate.

Also Homer describes the small city state of Thisbe as being a place of pigeons. I recall an expedition which located it's ruins and surprise, it was still full of pigeons.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam, will ping when home. Meanwhile, a related topic from last week.

Hmm... weird... can't find it... I distinctly remember posting a bunch of stuff in it.

[AD from SpringBay]

Took the image out of my head.

[SunkenCiv]

Ah, ha.

Archeologists make historic discovery (Tomb of Odysseus)
The Madera Tribune | 8/27/05 | Thomas Elias
Posted on 09/23/2005 7:37:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490367/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[GregoTX]

"Search Locates Homer's Ithaca"

MMMMMMMmmmmmm Ithica

[SunkenCiv]

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Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca by Robert Bittlestone with James Diggle and John Underhill

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