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What is clearly missing,” wrote Dr Christine Haywood reviewing Odysseus Unbound, “is a good knowledge of the complexities of Homeric language, and the support of archaeology.” [10] Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-521-85357-5. Odysseus Unbound website
Towers in Greece; Name Location Era Image Aigosthena Tower: Aigosthena, Attica: Ancient period: Agia Tower: Naxos: Venetian period: Annunziata Tower: Corfu (city) Venetian period
Palaiokastritsa (Greek: Παλαιοκαστρίτσα meaning Little Old Castle place, referring to nearby Angelokastro) is a village in northwestern Corfu, Greece. Corfu has been suggested to be the mythical island of the Phaeacians and the bay of Palaiokastritsa to be the place where Odysseus disembarked and met Nausicaa for the first time ...
Head of Odysseus wearing a pileus depicted on a 3rd-century BC coin from Ithaca.. Ithaca, Ithaki or Ithaka (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /; Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithaki; Ancient Greek: Ἰθάκη, Ithákē [i.tʰá.kɛː]) is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.
Among these foundation myths the continuation of Odysseus's travels told in the Telegony is at least as important as the wanderings reported in the Odyssey. The earliest record of a foundation myth connecting Odysseus with Italy is the lines surviving in Hesiod 's Theogony (1011ff.), which report that Odysseus and Circe had two sons Agrius and ...
Odysseus: Archaeological Sites. Greek government, Ministry of Culture and Sports. 2012. Archived from the original on 2007-09-03 "Disaster on Santorini". Kathimerini. 24 September 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-10-04; Akrotiri, Akrotiri on Visit Santorini Tourist Information Website
Odysseus Unbound is a 2005 book by Robert Bittlestone, with appendices by the philologist James Diggle and the geologist John Underhill. The book investigates the location of Homer's Ithaca , arguing that Paliki , a peninsula of Kefalonia , was an island at the time of the Trojan War , and that it was the island referred to as Ithaca in the ...
Bath in Palace of Nestor. The Palace of Nestor (Modern Greek: Ανάκτορο του Νέστορα) was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor's kingdom of "sandy Pylos". [1] The palace featured in the story of the Trojan War, as Homer tells us that Telemachus: