Re: Troy and Ithaca

On Wed, 24 May 2006 21:49:22 GMT, "Alan Crozier"
<name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


And Ithaca was really Cephalonia according to James
Bittlestone et al. in Odysseus Unbound.
http://tinyurl.com/kslhw

I haven't read either of them so can't comment. The latter
is published by Cambridge UP. The former comes from a vanity
publisher, if that means anything...

I lost the website, but it should be retrievable - it was an article
in 'The Smithsonian'. I read it, it sounded plausible from several
perspectives:
(1) AFAIK there are no bronze age palaces on modern Ithaca, but there
are one or several on Cephalonia
(2) I always found it strange that a famous man should come from a
small island in the shadow of a large one which was never mentioned in
the Odyssey
(3) The claim that two formerly unconnected parts of Cephalonia were
joined through a large landslide sounds plausible to me (after all,
Cephalonia is sitting more or less right on a subduction zone), and if
they quote a geologist who appears to confirm the landslide
interpretation it I go with it.

It does not prove anything, but it makes me curious enough to see
Cephalonia anyway. If nothing comes in between, the US friend who
alerted me to this essay in the Smithsonian and I shall take a trip to
Cephalonia coming summer (that is, 2007).

Hayabusa

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