Re: The Search for Homer's Ithaca

Uncle Noah <nkavv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Glad to see that you have refined your first (somewhat unfair)
comments.

The important thing here is not the marine fossils (of course) but the
fact that the hypothesis has not been disproved.

That was the main point of my comment on the press-release.
It is encouraging for the writer, but geology is not enough to
prove the theory. When I have the theory that Ithaca was on
the Dutch coast, that theory is probably not contradicted by
the geology beneath my backyard.

Certainly, there are some years of field research ahead...

Looking at the headlines today, not everyone is convinced
of that: "Heroic quest for home truth is over"

I haven't read the book either. Writing of such book might feel hasty
but maybe this was the only way of invoking the interest of those
necessary (i think you know what i mean).

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p.a.

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