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"The World according to Homer", according to an 1895 map. The geography of the Apologoi (the tale that Odysseus told to the Phaeacians, forming books 9-12 of the Odyssey), and the location of the Phaeacians' own island of Scheria, pose quite different problems from those encountered in identifying Troy, Mycenae, Pylos and Ithaca.
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The Map of the Outer Geography of the Odyssey and two maps of ancient Greece were based on the scholarly work of William Ewart Gladstone, who had also revised the map plates and text of the atlas. [19] In 1871, Johnston published the Half-Crown Atlas of British History for the price sensitive educational market. It was designed as a connected ...
The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 1807. William M. Leake—writing in 1835—he thought "Ithaca" was on the northwestern coast of Ithaki island, near Polis Bay. Travels in the Morea with a Map and Plans. London: John Murray. 1830. Travels in Northern Greece. London: John Murray. 835.
The School of Homer presented in The geography and antiquities of Ithaca in 1806. The island has been known as Ithaca from an early date, as coins and inscriptions show. Coins from Ithaca frequently portray Odysseus, and an inscription from the 3rd century BC refers to a local hero-shrine of Odysseus and games called the Odysseia. [16]
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The accuracy of Homer's geography has been disputed since antiquity, and Bittlestone's book is one of several published by non-academic authors in the 1990s and 2000s that attempts to identify Homer's Ithaca based on the geographical evidence given in the Odyssey. [2]