Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Finding Ithaca

Engineers to help find Homer's Ithaca (AP)

Amateur British archaeologist Robert Bittlestone looks through a book, in Athens, on Monday, March 26, 2007. Bittlestone has received backing from academics and engineering services company Fugro Group to test his theory that the island of Ithaca in Homer's 'The Odyssey' is in fact part of the larger island of Kefallonia, and became joined by land displacement caused by earthquakes. (AP Photo/Derek Gatopoulos)AP - A geological engineering company said Monday it has agreed to help in an archaeological project to find the island of Ithaca, homeland of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus. It has long been thought that the island of Ithaki in the Ionian Sea was the island Homer used as a setting for the epic poem "The Odyssey," in which the king Odysseus makes a perilous 10-year journey home from the Trojan War.


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