[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?

[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!

[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

[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.

[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]

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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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[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

"Odysseus Unbound" sounds like the title of a Steve Reeves movie.

I'll probably break down and buy it anyway.

[Dustbunny]

Neat

[Unam Sanctam]

I would tend to doubt it, as place names can be very durable things -- I would guess the island of Ithaki. However, there is the counterexample of Scotia, which once meant Ireland and not Scotland, so I suppose the same thing might have happened to the Ithaca placename over the millenia.

[SunkenCiv]

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