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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:54 pm
by happywonton
http://www.yahoo.com/s/541630

From my Freshmen year in high school (I don't know about college yet), we read The Odyssey. It was long and I had no clue what was going on, but I didn't know that the place was actually real. So a group of engineers and archeologists are setting out to find it.

The only hardcore thing I liked about it was that no one could string Odysseus's bow except himself after he came back.

Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:16 am
by gmsnctry
The epic poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey talk about Ithaca but there is scholarly debate on whether the islands Kefalonia, Zacynthos, and Doulichion and a few others by curent isle named Ithaca were really Ithaca -- The current Ithaca doesnt match the descriptions given in the poems (it could be the authors never actually visited, poetic license or just stupidity)

The current island called Ithaca wont change - like the Minoans the inhabitants disappeared over centuries of being conquered -- plus it brings in too much tourism to change